2013:150 - Lisheen Mine Sub Station, Killoran, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary Site name: Lisheen Mine Sub Station, Killoran

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 13E0034

Author: Jane Whitaker

Site type: Monitoring

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 621517m, N 666759m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.751466, -7.681278

Monitoring was carried out during the course of groundworks carried out on behalf of Bord na Móna for an extension to Lisheen Mine Sub Station and an associated 38KV buried cable. This work was carried out in two phases. During the first phase groundworks for the re-routing of existing cables and the preparatory works for a new access track/road around the development at the site of the Lisheen Mine Sub Station was monitored over a period of eight days in Feburary/March 2013. The second phase of monitoring was over the course of seven days in September 2013 while groundworks for the ducting of services between Lisheen and Bruckana Sub Stations were carried out. Nothing of archaeological interest was found during the course of these groundworks.

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