2015:123 - POMEROY: Cregganconroe and Tremoge Top, Tyrone
County: Tyrone
Site name: POMEROY: Cregganconroe and Tremoge Top
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/15/60
Author: Joseph Nunan
Author/Organisation Address: The Old Cork Road, Cooleens, Charleville, Co. Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 666736m, N 873260m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.603191, -6.967116
From mid-February to mid-March 2015, the hardstands, assembly areas, and tracks within the Cregganconroe wind farm development were stone surfaced; mechanical excavation and archaeological monitoring ceased during this period. The excavation licence (AE/14/131) expired at the end of February 2015, and when mechanical excavation commenced in mid-March 2015, on a laneway accessing the Cregganconroe wind farm site entrance, a new excavation licence (AE/15/60) was acquired.
Mechanical excavation began on 16 March 2015 and continued until mid-April. The new area of excavation was located directly north of the Loughmallon road at the southernmost aspect of the Cregganconroe wind farm scheme. Excavation involved the utilisation and upgrading of c. 325m of laneway orientated north-south, that exited onto the Loughmallon road, and which headed north to the Cregganconroe wind farm site entrance.
Development works consisted of upgrading and excavating the existing laneway by increasing its width, as well as upgrading drains, landscaping, and inserting cabling and water ducts.
No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed through monitoring associated with the excavation of the laneway.