Land valuation services for Bord na Móna Renewable Energy business unit.
Land valuations are currently required for ten renewable energy projects going through the design and planning preparation stage.
These valuations are required for lands which may be needed to facilitate proposed cable routes, borrow pits, haul routes, site access and/or off-site electrical infrastructure (i.e. substations).
Valuations will be used for negotiations with the landowners.
1) Shape files Allen Bog (x 8) created 15th June 2020 2) Shape files Blackwater Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 3) Shape files Boora Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 4) Shape files Cuil na Mona Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 5) Shape files Derrygreenagh Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 6) Shape files Kilberry Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 7) Shape files Mountdillon Bog (x8) created 15th June 2020 8) Shape files of Bord na Móna Plc. owned lands (x8) created 23rd March 2022
I refer to the request you made under the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 to 2018 (S.I. No. 133 of 2007, S.I. No. 662 of 2011, S.I. 615 of 2014 and S.I. No. 309 of 2018) (hereafter referred to as the AIE Regulations) for access to information in relation to GIS data of the following:
BSM Bog ID
BNM Bog No. BNM Bog Name BNM Bog group County IPPC Licence no.
Area in hectares (as per GIS system)
Main land use
Other land use
Drainage (pumped, gravity, part pumped)
Extension date by which decision will be made
As indicated in the acknowledgement of 23rd February 2022, Bord na Móna Plc. is obliged to notify you of its decision on this request within one month of its receipt. However, Article 7(2)(b) of the AIE Regulations allows a public body to extend this time period up to a maximum of 2 months from the date on which the request was received, where the decision maker is unable, due to the volume or complexity of the request, to make a decision within the original one month period.
Records relevant to your request have been located by Bord na Móna plc. However, issues have arisen with regard to the applicability of grounds for refusal under Article 9 of the AIE Regulations, which unfortunately it will not be possible to resolve within the one-month timeframe. Therefore, I am extending the time for dealing with your request by one month from the date indicated to you in the acknowledgement letter. I will notify you of my decision as soon as possible, but at the latest by 21st April 2022.
The Clonbullogue Ash Repository is located approximately 8 km South West of the Town of Edenderry and 2 km North West of Clonbullogue village. It is located on Cloncreen bog, a cut-away peatland area within the Allen Group of Bogs
Drainage ditches evacuated in the surrounding peatlands by Bord na Mona are orientated in an East – West axis and essentially divert any seepage or drainage water from the peatlands. Drainage from the site is along a West – East drainage ditch which discharges ultimately to the Figile River.
Clonbullogue Ash Repository was to dispose of waste products (fly ash and bottom ash), arising from peat combustion within the boiler of the Edenderry Power Station. Bord na Mona was successful in 2006, in a review process of the facility licence to co-fuel peat with biomass and or meat and bonemeal.
Surrender of EPA Licence by Bord na Mona Energy Ltd in August 2021
Closed/inactive peat disposal facility at Srahmore, Bangor-Erris, Co. Mayo
The site received its last tonne of peat in 2013 and has been in decommissioning and rehabilitated phases in accordance with the ELRA & Cramps submitted.
As part of the Corrib On-shore Pipeline Development, a gas terminal site was constructed at Ballanaboy Bridge. During its construction, approximately 448, 000m3 of peat was excavated, then transported and deposited at the Srahmore Peat Deposition Site during 2005 and 2007.
As part of the next stage of the project, the re-routing of the on-shore pipeline required the relocation of up to 75,000m3 of peat to the Srahmore Deposition Site.
In total over 18,000 truck deliveries by road were carried out covering some 470,000 km of road transportation. In total 448,050 tonnes of peat was excavated, loaded for transportation, received and deposited on the cutaway peatlands at Srahmore. Internally almost 50,000 tractor deposits took place with an approximate 150,000 km travelled on internal haul roads.
The aquatic habitats include the Munhin River, Owenmore River and Tullaghan Bay, which combined form the lower stretch of the Owenmore Catchment. The Owenmore Catchment covers an area of 340km2 and stretches from the tributaries entering the Oweninny River at Knockmoyle (cSAC), the Altnabrocky River that flows north through the Bellacorick Bog complex (cSAC) and those entering Lough Carrowmore (cSAC).
High Court agreed to grant an injunction restraining Harte from extracting wet peat from areas of its midland bogs after finding its unregulated activities were a “material and significant” breach of EU environmental law
“Ms Justice Phelan said it is “artificial” to treat lands on either side of a road that form part of a single bog beneath the road as separate entities. When calculating the threshold, it is proper to have regard not only to the footprint of the harvesting land but also to any area which is used for purposes incidental to extraction, she said.”
