County: Mayo Site name: GLENGAD/DOONCARTON/ROSDOAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0568
Author: William O. Frazer, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 483540m, N 838130m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.278685, -9.788329
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with the Corrib Field Development Onshore Pipeline began in June 2002 in the townlands of Glengad/Dooncarton and Rosdoagh, Co. Mayo. The proposed route for the pipeline reaches landfall on the northern shore of Glengad/Dooncarton and stretches to a proposed gas terminal near Bellanaboy Bridge in Ballygelly South townland. The foreshore at the landfall location is composed of sand; a low (3–4m) cliff separates it from grassy pasture above the high-tide level. Monitoring of topsoil-stripping from the grassy pasture to the boundary of the proposed terminal site, but excluding the proposed terminal site, took place under a different licence. Simon Ó Faoláin, under another licence, carried out work associated with the offshore section of the proposed pipeline and with the intertidal foreshore below the cliff at the landfall location.
Soil was stripped from an area of 0.25ha along the route of the temporary access road (down to and then along the route of the pipeline), and c. 500–600m2 of the pipeline was stripped in Dooncarton/Glengad. No archaeology was found. Topsoil was also stripped from an area of 0.25ha on the site of the proposed contractor’s temporary compound in Rosdoagh. Again, no archaeology was found.
Continuing legal proceedings related to the Corrib Field Development Onshore Pipeline and the proposed gas terminal at Bellanaboy Bridge have halted all development works.
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