County: Kerry Site name: BEENAGEEHA/GORTCLOHY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0238
Author: Rory Sherlock, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 491891m, N 622213m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.340860, -9.586547
Monitoring of a wind farm development took place over five weeks in April to May 2000. Six wind turbines were constructed, together with ancillary buildings and c. 1.4km of access roads. The development was located on Beenageeha Mountain at elevations of between 800ft and the summit of 1062ft. The topography of the area is predominantly rough blanket bog.
The access road on the north-western side of the mountain, in Gortclohy townland, was constructed following the excavation of c. 0.8m of peat, but on the summit plateau the excavated peat was up to 2.7m deep in areas where it had not been previously removed by turf-cutting. The peat overlay a grey, stony material and in places fine shale. On the south-western, southern and south-eastern sides of the mountain, in Beenageeha townland, the access roads and turbine bases were constructed after the removal of 0.1–1.3m of peat and 0.1–1m of subsoil. The width of the excavations for the access roads varied between 7.5m and 13m depending on the depth of peat encountered. No features or finds of archaeological interest were noted during the project.
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