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Granard Motte damaged over bank holiday weekend

  • 06-06-2017 5:46am
    #1
    Dr Strange
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    This just came up on RTÉ:
    rte.ie wrote:
    Investigation into damage at Granard Motte monument site

    Gardaí investigating the digging of a hole out of the base of the mound


    Gardaí in Co Longford are investigating the circumstances surrounding an apparent attempt to damage or steal material from a national monument.

    A one meter wide hole was dug out from under the Granard Motte, the site of a 12th century Anglo-Norman fortified structure, over the course of the Bank Holiday weekend.

    ...


    Link to full article: https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0606/880473-granard-motte/


Comments

  • #2
    tedpan
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    If this had happened 150 years ago nobody would have known.. ah well, I'd say they found nothing.


  • #3
    robp
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭robp


    tedpan wrote: »
    If this had happened 150 years ago  nobody would have known.. ah well, I'd say they found nothing.
    It could be a hole dug from metal detecting, if so they could well have plundered something from it.


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