2021:695 - Sheskin Wind Farm, Sheskin, Bellacorick, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo Site name: Sheskin Wind Farm, Sheskin, Bellacorick

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0558

Author: Dermot Nelis

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 496350m, N 827920m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.189733, -9.588193

Sheskin Wind Farm will involve construction of eight wind turbines with associated hardstandings, new internal access tracks, upgrading existing access tracks, water crossings, underground cabling, a substation, a permanent meteorological mast, a site compound and associated site works.

Monitoring of advance enabling works, which was limited to upgrading 4 existing culverts with new box culverts, took six days to carry out in September 2021.

No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed as a result of carrying out the monitoring.

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