County: Galway Site name: RIVER CORRIB, GALWAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA082–081 Licence number: 08E1002
Author: Billy Quinn, Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services Ltd, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 528471m, N 727761m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.295323, -9.072960
Testing was carried out at the site of a proposed power-cable passage adjacent to Terryland Mansion at Terryland, Co. Galway, in March 2009. The works were carried out in advance of a major regional electricity network enhancement programme involving the installation of a new underground cable system between Galway 110kV substation and Salthill 38kV substation. The proposed route for the cable involved crossing the River Corrib between the townlands of Terryland and Newcastle adjacent to Terryland Mansion. The scheme proposed to directionally-drill the cable route with a launch and recovery pit in the townlands of Terryland and Newcastle respectively.
The programme of testing excavated 120m of test-trenches along the proposed cable route and its associated launch pit. Testing noted that the area was greatly disturbed, with concrete, metal, steel and other modern materials noted in the trenches. It also recorded that, in many places, boulder clay was very close to the surface, with only a small covering of topsoil or mixed ground. The testing regime did not record the presence of any archaeological materials or features along the proposed route. Based on the results of the programme of testing, it would appear that there are no archaeological remains along the route of the cable.
