County: Fermanagh Site name: Thornog Wind Farm, Drumquin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: FER 135:020 Licence number: AE/13/167
Author: Stuart Reilly, Gahan and Long Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 624461m, N 871205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.588544, -7.621549
An archaeological evaluation was carried out prior to the construction of an 8-turbine wind farm at Thornog, Drumquin. Access to the wind farm is gained off the Bradan Road, to the immediate south of the Meenadoan National Nature Reserve and Lough Bradan Forest. The initial enabling works for the wind farm was conducted in 2012 under licence no. AE/12/137. These works consisted of a bell mouth site entrance and an access road from the entrance to a sub-station. The foundations of the sub-station were also constructed in this phase of the development and these were also monitored. No archaeological remains were identified during this initial phase of works.
For this evaluation, all of the ground works associated with the turbine bases, hard stands, site roads and borrow pit were monitored. Within part of Thornog wind farm, in particular in the vicinity of T1, T2, T3 and T4, there had been extensive peat cutting in the past that had left only a minimal covering of bog with a typical depth of 0.3-0.4m.
No archaeological deposits were uncovered during the evaluation.
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