RECORD OF MONUMENTSAND .PLACES as Establishedunder Section 12 of the NationalMonuments (Amendment)Act 1994 COUNTY ROSCOMMON IssuedBy NationalMonuments and Historic PropertiesService 1997 Establishment and Exhibition of Record of Monumentsand Places under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994 Section 12 (1) of the National Monuments(Amendment) Act 1994 states that Commissionersof Public Worksin Ireland "shall establish and maintain a record of monumentsand places where they believe there are monumentsand the record shall be comprisedof a list of monumentsand such places and a mapor mapsshowing each monumentand such place in respect of eachcounty in the State." Section12 (2)of the Act providesfor the exhibitionin eachcounty of the list and map.sforthat countyin a mannerprescribed by regulationsmade by the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht. The relevant regulations were madeunder Statutory InstrumentNo. 341 of 1994, entitled NationalMonuments (Exhibition of Recordof Monuments)Regulations, 1994. This manualcontains the list of monumentsand places recordedunder Section12 (1) of the Act for the Countyof Roscommonwhich is exhibited along with the set of mapsfor the Countyof Roscommonshowing the recorded monumentsand places. 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 CatTy 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 Worksin 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 monthsimprisonment 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 possessionof 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 notedthat under Section7 (1) (a) of the National Monuments(Amendment) Act 1994 a memberof 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. Information forming the Basis for the Record Theinformation on whichthe 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 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 found on inspection not to merit inclusion in that record or they cannotbe located with sufficient accuracyto be so included. Formatof List 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 NumbedPlanFl’race(SH/PL/TR) 3 National Grid Co-ordinates(NAT. GRID) 4 Townland Name(s) (TOVVNLAND) 5 Classification 1 MonumentNumber 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 Roscommon: RO001-001-- 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 ’i on which the monumentis located. The dash is so as to allow for OrdnanceSurvey ! Sheetswith A and B inserts and in such casesthe Sheet numberwould be given in the form (for example)001A or 001Bas appropriate. Thelast 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. Thefirst 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.The final dashis to allow for a situation wherea monumentor place is divided betweentwo or moreOrdnance 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-statutorySites andMonuments Record having been subsumedin one monumentnumber in the statutory record or, for the reasons given 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 EachOrdnance Survey 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 Tracesystem. 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 © The classification gives a brief indication of the nature of each recorded monument or place. Format of Maps The maps on which the recorded monumentsand places are shown are reduced copies of OrdnanceSurvey Maps of the scale of Six Inches to One Mile ("6 Inch Sheets"), i.e. 1:10,560. The resulting mapsare at a scale of approximately 1:12,500. As explained in the section "Format of List" the recorded monumentsand places are listed and numberedaccording to OrdnanceSurvey 6 Inch Sheet. Way in which Monumentsand Places are Shown The recorded monumentsand places are shown on the maps by being circled or boxed in as appropriate by a black line. In some cases several monumentsor places are circled or boxed in together because of their close proximity to, or association with, each other. The circles and boxes around-the recorded monumentsand places are intended to show them but not to define their exact extent. Referring from the Mapsto the List A shortened version of the appropriate monumentnumber as given in the list is printed in large characters beside each circle or box. The elements of the monument number indicating the 6 Inch Sheet number and county code are omitted. For example, the first monument or place on the first 6 Inch Sheet for County Roscommonhas the monumentnumber RO001-001-- as explained in the section "Format of List". The circle or box showing that monumentor place on the maphas the number1 printed beside it. The next recorded monumentor place on the first 6 Inch Sheet for County Roscommonhas the monument number RO001-002-- and the appropriate circle or box on the mapwill havethe number2 printed beside it. The sequence of numbering of the monuments and places on each Ordnance Survey 6 Inch Sheet generally runs from left to right across that sheet in roughly horizontal bands, but monumentsor places addedafter the completion of the initial numberinghave been placed at the end of the numerical sequence. m Address for Inquiries, Notifications and Applications Inquiries, notifications of proposedworks