County: Limerick Site name: Morgan’s North
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0452
Author: Niall Brady
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 530321m, N 652145m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.616080, -9.028950
Other grid refs:
129782 152872; 130128 152692; 130618 153306; 130744 152940; 130662 152794; 130639 152731; 130983 152529
Archaeological investigations took place at Morgan’s North townland, Co. Limerick as part of a Request for Further Information from Limerick County Council, for a proposed windfarm scheme. Intertidal survey and inspection of a bawn wall associated with Morgan's North House (LI010-119, 030) were also carried out.
Testing presented a comprehensive insight to the nature of the buried strata at five of the proposed turbine locations, and at two locations of the proposed access road. The test trench locations are distributed over a large land area that extends for more than 1.2km east-west by 1.8km. The consistency of observations in terms of the natural strata at the test locations suggests that this pattern can be anticipated more widely. The absence of significant archaeological observations in the test trench locations suggests that the proposed turbine locations have been selected carefully to have a minimum impact on cultural heritage.
Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.
