Recorded Monuments Protected under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1994 County Galway Archaeological Survey of Ireland The Office of Public Works @ Section 12 (1) of the National Monuments(Amendment)Act 1994 states that Commissioner’sof Public Win’ksin h’eDand "shall establishand maintain a recordof monumentsand places where they believe there are monumentsand the recordshall be comprisedof a list of monumentsand such places and a mapor mapsshowing each monumentand such place in respectof eachcounty in the State." Section12 (2) of the Act providesfor the exhibitionin eachcounty of the list and mapsfor that countyin a mannerprescribed by regulationsmade by the ~inis~e,"fo," Arts, Cu~u,’e and ~he GaeD~chtThe relevant regulations were madeunder StatutoryInstrument No. 341 of 1994, entitled NationalMonuments (Exhibition of Recordof Monuments)Regulations, 1994. C] Protection of Monumentsand Places included in the Record Section 12 (3) of the Act provides for the protection of monumentsand places included in the record stating that "When the owner or occupier (not being the Commissioners) of monumentor place which has been recorded under subsection (1) this section or any person proposesto carry out, or to causeor permit the carrying out of, any work at or in relation to such monumentor place, he shaft give notice in writing of his proposal to carry out the work to the Commissionersand shaft not, except in the case of urgent necessity and with the consent of the Commissioners, commencethe work for a period of two monthsafter having given the notice." A person contravening this requirement for two months notification to the Commissionersof Public Works in Ireland of proposedworks at or in relation to a recorded monumentor place shall (under Section 13 of the Act) be guilty of an offence and be liable on summaryconviction to a maximumpenalty of a £1000 fine and 12 months imprisonment and on conviction on indictment to a maximumpenalty of a £50,000 fine and 5 years imprisonment. It should also be noted that Section 16 of the National Monuments(Amendment) Act 1994 amendedthe National Monuments(Amendment) Act 1987 (the Act of 1987) that under Section 2 (1) (a) (iv) of that the use or possession of adetection device "in, or at the site of, a monumentrecorded under section 12 of the National Monuments(Amendment) Act, 1994," is prohibited otherwise than in accordancewith a consent of the Commissionersof Public Worksin Ireland granted under the provisions of Section 2 of the Act of 1987. A person contravening the above provisions relating to use or possession of detection devices shall (under Section 2 (5) of the Act of 1987) be guilty of offence and be liable (under Section 23 (1) of the Act of 1987) on summary conviction to a maximumpenalty of a £1000 fine and 6 months imprisonment or on conviction on indictment to a maximumpenalty of a £50,000 fine and 12 months imprisonment. It should be further noted that underSection 7 (1) (a) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994 a member of the Garda Siochana may without warrant seize and detain: "a detectiondevice found in, at the site of, or in the vicinity of" a monumentrecorded under Section 12 of the Act unless the person in possession of the device has a consent of the Commissionersof Public Works in Ireland in accordancewith the provisions of Section 2 of the Act of 1987. © Theinformation on which the list of monumentsand places for eachcounty and the mapsshowing those monumentsand places is basedis derived from that used for the non-statutory Sites and MonumentsRecords previously issued for each county 0 by the National Monumentsand Historic Properties Service, but certain monuments have been addedand certain entries in the Sites and MonumentsRecords have not beentransferred into the statutory record as they refer to features whichhave been foundon inspection not to merit inclusion in that record or they cannotbe located with sufficient accuracyto be so included. The recorded monumentsand places in each county are numberedaccording to the OrdnanceSurvey Maps of the scale of Six Inches to OneMile ("6 Inch Sheets") for the county, and the entry for eachmonument and place is arrangedin five columns underthe following headings(the abbreviation usedin the actual list is given in bracketsafter each): 1 MonumentNumber (MON. NO.) 2 OrdnanceSurvey 6-Inch Sheet Number/Plan/Trace(SH/PL/TR) 3 National Grid Co-ordinates(NAT. GRID) 4 Townland Name(s) (TOWNLAND) 5 Classification "i Nlonumen~Number This refers to the unique identifying numbergiven to both monumentsand places enteredin the record and is given in a form similar to the following examplewhich refers to the first monumentor place on the first OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheetfor County Galway: GA001-001--- Eachcounty has beengiven a two letter identifying code, and this forms the first elementin the identifying number.The next element(in the aboveexample the 001- comingafter the county code) gives the numberof the OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch map on which the monumentis located. The dashis so as to allow for OrdnanceSurvey @ Sheetswith A and B inserts and in such cases the Sheet numberwould be given in the form (for example)001A or 001Bas appropriate. The last elementgives the numberof the monumentor place within the sequenceof monumentnumbers on the particular OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet - in the above examplethis is the 001-- at the end. The first two of the three dashesat the end allow monumentsor places situated in close proximity to each other or closely associated with each other to be given one overall monumentnumber but at the sametime be individually identified throughthe use of sub-numberingin the form (for example)00101-, 00102-, 00103-, etc., as appropriate. Thefinal dashis to allow for a situation where a monumentor place is divided betweentwo or more Ordnance Survey6 Inch Sheetsin which case an asterisk is placed at the end of the second and subsequentmonument numbers relating to that monumentor place, thus giving (for example)the form 001--*. Non-Sequential Numbering Gapsin the sequenceof monumentnumbers for any particular OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheetare the result of entries in the non-statutory Sites and MonumentsRecord having been subsumedin one monumentnumber in the statutory record or, for the reasonsgiven in the section headed"Information forming the Basis for the Record",the non-transferral of certain entries in the non-statutory Sites and MonumentsRecord to the statutory record. 2 OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet Number~Plan~Trace Each OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet is divided into sixteen equal parts knownas Plans, and eachof these Plans is divided into six equal parts knownas Traces. The general position of a monumentor place on an OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet can thus be given by use of the Plan and Trace system. 3 National Grid Co-ordinates The ten-figure co-ordinates given in this columnindicate the position of each monumentor place with referenceto the National Grid. 4 Town~andName(s) Thetownland or townlandsin whicha monumentor place is situated are given in this column. 5 Classification Theclassification gives a brief indication of the nature of eachrecorded monument or place. The mapson which the recorded monumentsand places are shownare reduced copies of OrdnanceSurvey iViaps of the scale of Six Inchesto OneiViile ("6 Inch Sheets"),i.e. 1:10,560.The resulting mapsare at a scale of approximately1:12,500. As explained in the section "Format of List" the recorded monumentsand places are listed and numberedaccording to OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet. Way M which Monumentsand Places are Shown The recorded monumentsand places are shownon the mapsby being circled or boxed in as appropriate by a black line. In somecases several monumentsor places are circled or boxedin together becauseof their close proximity to, or association with, each other. The circles and boxes around the recorded monumentsand places are intended to showthem but not to define their exact extent. Referring from the Maps~o the Lis~ A shortened version of the appropriate monumentnumber as given in the list is printed in large charactersbeside eachcircle or box. Theelements of the monument numberindicating the 6 Inch Sheet numberand county code are omitted. For example,the first monumentor place on the first 6 Inch Sheetfor CountyGalway has the monumentnumber GA001-001--- as explained in the section "Format of List". The circle or box showingthat monumentor place on the maphas the number 1 printed besideit. The next recordedmonument or place on the first 6 Inch Sheet for County Galwayhas the monumentnumber GA001-002--- and the appropriate circle or box on the mapwill havethe number2 printed besideit. The sequence of numbering of the monumentsand places on each Ordnance Survey6 Inch Sheetgenerally runs from left to right across that sheet in roughly horizontal bands,but monumentsor places addedafter the completionof the initial numberinghave been placed at the end of the numerical sequence. Address for Inquiries, Notifications and Applications Inquiries, notifications of proposedworks at or in relation to recordedmonuments or placesor applications for consentfor the use of detection devicesshould be sent to the following address: National Monumentsand Historic Properties Service, 51 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Tel. (01) 6613111 Availability of Acts and Regulations TheActs andRegulations referred to aboveare available for purchasefrom: The GovernmentPublications Sales Office, Sun Alliance House, MolesworthStreet, Dublin 2. Tel. (01) 6613111