County: Mayo Site name: Tawnaghmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0072 ext.
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 520979m, N 827707m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.192210, -9.210850
The proposed development entails a biomass-fuelled (wood and herbaceous) nominal 50MWe Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility on a portion of the Killala Business Park (formerly the Asahi Business Park) and adjacent land, in the townlands of Tawnaghmoe Upper and Lower, approximately 3.2km south of Killala, County Mayo. The brownfield site is approximately 21.7ha in extent.
This site was already subject to a number of archaeological investigations including an initial testing programme (March 2011) followed by the monitoring of engineering test pits.
Monitoring in 2013 was carried out of an additional phase of 9 Engineering Test Pits, TP1-9, a soakaway notation S1, a percolation notation and 6 CBR notations. All the pits were mechanically excavated using a track machine with a 1.5m ditching bucket. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
Moore Group, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway.
