Fingal County Council raised serious concerns irreparable harm has been caused to official monument
Judge John O'Connor granted an injunction directing two men to cease alleged works at an ancient burial site. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni/Collinstold the Circuit Court more human bones were unearthed at the Castleknock site last week, giving rise to a serious concern that irreparable harm has been caused to an officially recorded monument.
The council’s barrister, Chris Hughes, told the court that site clearance works had been carried out by the defendants on a national monument where the remains of nearly 400 men, women and children had been professionally excavated by the National Museum in the late 1930s.Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrateThe excavation uncovered blue and white glass beads, a lignite ring, bronze pins, flint arrowheads and some iron objects.
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