County: Kerry Site name: Knocknagaum/Muingatlaunlush/ Beenageeha
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0496
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services Ltd, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 495468m, N 620832m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.329147, -9.533640
Testing was carried out at the location of a proposed wind farm development consisting of nine turbines and associated services and facilities, including hardstanding, access tracks and grid connection, in the townlands of Knocknagoum, Muingatlaunlush and Beenageeha, in the Stack’s Mountains, Co. Kerry.
Testing was commissioned in response to a further information request from Kerry County Council requiring that ‘pre-development testing (be) undertaken on all turbine base locations, access/site roads, control building site, hard stands, compounds, cabling routes etc.’ Testing was carried out at the beginning of December 2010. A significant part of the proposed development site comprises inaccessible mature and semi-mature forestry as well as deposits of wet upland peat and these areas were unsafe or impossible to access or excavate. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of testing.
