One may be forgiven for feeling trenched in utter astonishment after finding a statement concerning the National monument no. 140, Grianán of Aileach, mentioned in a press release responding to accusations made by the Garda Representative Association against the OPW.
The rather generous spending habits of this state body hit the headlines in Donegal after it [...]
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The OPW, three light bulbs and a National monument
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holes above the gate
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When the day comes, and one more but decisive part of our past will crumble under the higher, bigger, faster grip of our hand, we will fall with it.
After all, the great universe itself will reach eventually the point, where it can expand no further and will implode into the grain of dust, it grew [...]
Swan-song
Posted in Heritage Protection on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The beautiful old Swilly Hotel on Buncrana’s shore has received its final stabbing after decades of endurance, which have left a feeble shell, where once grandeur praised the splendour of this spot. It will be flattened and replaced by architectural suicide and environmental disagreeability. Another landmark gone in a town built on the [...]
Why indeed
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Article in last Fridays Derry Journal
Why is Grianan of Aileach still being neglected? – MacLochlainn asks
Despite being one of Ireland’s truly historic sites, Burt’s Grianan of Aileach is all but ignored both in terms of the provision of facilities and tourism promotion
In another attempt to rectify this Sinn Fein’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has submitted a [...]
Strange fruit
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received an email from the Tara Foundation, who got successfully in contact with the OPW, containing the following statement:
“Grianan Aileach has not be removed from the National Monuments List.
It will remain on the list and in State care as long as it is in State
ownership. Grianan Aileach is not featured on the
www.heritageireland.ie map as [...]
Grianan Aileach lost National monument status
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And so very quietly. Some time ago. No one really knows when. No one really cares. No outcry. No rage nor anger. Not even a single question: Why? – is raised. Absolute silence.
In a statement to the Inish Times George Moir, press officer, OPW, “said they had a valid reason for omitting Grianán of Aileach [...]
Grianan Aileach in the care of the State
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It has yet to be established when the ringfort of stone was built on top of Greenan Hill but the earthworks and now lost souterrain (underground chamber) originate from as early as the Stone and Bronze Age. The geographical position of the hill and therefore everything placed on its top enjoys not only vast views [...]
Determination
Posted in Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection, tagged Grianan Aileach, Heritage Protection on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weather is still too cold and unpredictable to venture into the hills and visit my ’secret’ site again. Looking at the photos I took the day I stumbled over this site, I know that it will be a learning process. Like Grianan Aileach; every time it collapses or parts of its wall are replaced, [...]
A few thoughts in the eleventh hour
Posted in Heritage Protection on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ireland seems to have become a place, where all walls are moving in simultaneously and with barely a gap left to breath. As if in one last and mighty attempt of the great greed, every possible drop has to be squeezed out of the little remaining resources, no matter what the consequences will be. The [...]
The Foundation Of The Heritage Protection Alliance Of Ireland
Posted in Heritage Protection, tagged Heritage Protection on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was kindly brought to my attention. And so badly needed.
HERITAGE PROTECTION ALLIANCE Of IRELAND
CHARTER May 2007
The Heritage Protection Alliance of Ireland is being founded in May
2007 to seek the repeal of the National Monument Act of 2004. This
Act extended the powers of the Minister of the Environment, Heritage
and Local Government, to allow [...]
