County: Galway Site name: SONNAGH OLD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1264
Author: Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 558846m, N 709996m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.138897, -8.615073
The proposed development, which consists of a substantial wind farm involving the construction of ten wind turbines and several kilometres of new access roads, is situated 8km south-west of Loughrea, Co. Galway, along a ridge of low hills that forms the northern limit of the Slieve Aughty Mountains. The site is in a large state-owned forestry planted on blanket bog 1–2m deep. There are no known monuments in the vicinity. A strategy of testing and monitoring was used to investigate the site. No archaeological features, finds or deposits were uncovered.
Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
