County: Sligo Site name: LACKAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL010-030---- Licence number: 03E0387
Author: Mary Henry, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 529715m, N 832668m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.238044, -9.078178
Pre-construction testing was undertaken at the site of a proposed wind farm at Lackan, near Enniscrone, Co. Sligo. The site is close to a fulacht fiadh.
Eleven trenches were opened. No archaeological features were revealed in any of them. Due to the topography and landscape attributes of the siting of two of the proposed turbines (wet, marshy and low-lying areas and close to the coast), it is most unlikely that there are any surviving archaeological remains, as this area was probably subject to extensive sea incursion and flooding up until the time that the coastal defences were built. The hostile coastal terrain would have made human activity, and particularly fishing, very dangerous, if not impossible.
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