County: Wexford Site name: Graigue More/Kiltilly/Coolmela or Prospect
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0507 ext.
Author: Faith Bailey
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 694640m, N 658896m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.672955, -6.600609
A programme of monitoring carried out in the townlands of Graigue More, Kiltilly and Coolmela or Prospect, Co. Wexford in response to the development of the Gibbet Hill Wind Farm. Monitoring of site investigations and topsoil stripping was required as a condition of planning. Monitoring was also recommended in the Environmental Impact Statement (Bailey 2008). A further assessment was undertaken in 2010 in order to assess a revision in the access routes (Bailey 2010). In 2010 monitoring of the excavation of site investigation pits at the development area was carried out by Gill McLoughlin (Excavations 2010, No. 766, 10E0507). Nothing of archaeological significance was identified during the course of these works.
Monitoring was carried out within the wind farm site intermittently over a number of days between April and September 2012. Each turbine site, crane platform and parts of the access roads were stripped of topsoil, using a toothless bucket under supervision. No features of archaeological significance were identified.
Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120b Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
