Cork community encircled by wind farms lodges appeal

With wind farms also at Grousemount, Shehy, and a stalled nine-turbine project at nearby Cleanrath, development committee chairman Tadhg Ó Duinnín described Béal Átha ’n Ghaorthaidh as being “absolutely surrounded” by turbines “in a 360-degree radius around us”. File image

Members of a Cork community encircled by wind farms “in a 360-degree radius” have lodged an appeal against a planning decision on seven turbines near picturesque Gougane Barra, just as news emerged of another 12 planned nearby.

Ballingeary development committee, Coiste Forbartha Béal Átha ’n Ghaorthaidh, took its concerns over a wind farm and battery storage facility at Curraglass, less than 3km from Gougane Barra, direct to An Bord Pleanála on Tuesday, hand-delivering an appeal to the planning body’s Dublin headquarters.