2008:031 - Garves Windfarm, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Garves Windfarm

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/08/27

Author: David Kilner and Stuart McCleary, for ADS Ltd, Unit 6 Channel Wharf, 21 Old Channel Road, Belfast, BT3 9DE.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 699205m, N 918112m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.000706, -6.449401

A total of five wind turbines are to be erected on the site, which is situated in the environs of Dunloy in an archaeologically sensitive area, with the prehistoric and Early Christian periods being especially well represented. Monitoring took place between 25 January 2008 and 11 June 2008. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.