2022:569 - Cloncreen Wind Farm, Ballinrath, Ballykilleen, Ballynakill, Cloncreen, Clongarret, Esker More and Rathvilla or Rathclonbrackan townlands, Offaly

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Offaly Site name: Cloncreen Wind Farm, Ballinrath, Ballykilleen, Ballynakill, Cloncreen, Clongarret, Esker More and Rathvilla or Rathclonbrackan townlands

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0579

Author: Dermot Nelis

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 658900m, N 726350m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.284190, -7.116714

Development involved construction of 21 wind turbines and associated hard-standing areas; provision of new site access roads and associated drainage; one electrical sub-station; and all associated site development works.

Fieldwork was carried out intermittently and in total took 221 days to complete.

Monitoring revealed peat sealing geologically deposited strata across all of the site. No archaeological features or artefacts were revealed as a result of carrying out the monitoring.

36 Fingal Street, Dublin 8