County: Galway Site name: Rinmore, Galway
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0287
Author: Finn Delaney
Site type: Monitoring - survey and geotechnical investigation
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 532073m, N 724974m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270746, -9.018343
A Marine Archaeological Assessment was undertaken by Geomara in relation to the Proposed IRIS Cable System. An excavation licence was granted in order to monitor the results of the predevelopment bathymetric and geophysical surveys and geotechnical investigations.
All of the geotechnical, CPT and sampling logs and the subsequent reports have been reviewed and nothing of an archaeological nature was noted in any of the cores or samples analysed.
Following a full review of all the bathymetric and geophysical data the bathymetric geophysical charts of the survey corridor were cross-referenced with the magnetometer and sonar target data. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted. All of the magnetometer and sonar contacts have been avoided by the preferred route.
The known shipwreck sites in Galway Bay and the recorded cultural heritage sites on the coast at Galway Bay, the Islands and along the coast of Clare highlight the intense human activity in the general area from earliest times up to the present day. This activity has the potential to yield associated features, finds or deposits and these may be disturbed during the cable system installations. The Galway City Storm Damage Survey identified ship timbers and an old quay which are present on Ballyloughane beach.
A series of mitigation measures were recommended in order to ameliorate the potential impact of the cable installation and associated works.
The Portershed, Eyre Square, Galway H91 HY51
