County: Tipperary Site name: MOANMORE/SHANBALLYMORE/RANACROHY/KNOCKBALLYNOE EAST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0403
Author: Donal Fallon, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 585897m, N 642815m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.536506, -8.207874
An environmental impact statement was prepared on behalf of the ESB on the route of the proposed Killonan–Tipperary 110kv line in spring 2001. The proposed line covers 42km between the townlands of Ballyglasheen, Co. Tipperary, and Killonan, Co. Limerick. The environmental impact statement identified a number of points on the route where associated groundworks could impinge on listed sites or sites of potential archaeological significance. Based on the results of the environmental impact statement, the sites of sixteen separate pole sets or angle masts were determined to require investigation. Five were in the listed townlands in County Tipperary.
Investigation comprised the manual excavation of a test-trench or trial-pit adjacent to the proposed location of the pole set. Each trench measured 1m square. Trial-pits were excavated over a number of days between 13 April and 15 August 2002. Nothing of archaeological significance was exposed in any of the trenches, and all of the finds recovered were of modern date. The sites tested in County Limerick are listed in a separate report (No. 1132, Excavations 2002).
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