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MICHAEL LOWRY HAS hit back at criticism over an election banner placed on a monument in Thurles which dates back to 1450.
Historian Mary McAuliffe told TheJournal.ie,“It’s defacing a national monument.
“It’s intrusive, it’s treating our built heritage as a commodity – not as something we should value in and of itself.”
The Tipperary independent TD said he wasn’t aware of the backlash, but that it was private property “and the owner granted permission for it”.
He added, ”As long as I can remember it has always been used for advertising by different local community groups.”
However, McAuliffe said that she was “gobsmacked” when she saw the banner placed on the landmark Bridge Castle.
“I couldn’t believe it – that anybody would use our built heritage to advertise themselves.
It would be like putting ‘Vote for Michael Lowry’ across the Rock of Cashel, it’s the same thing.
“I know they are of different value for people but it’s the same thing.
“Tipperary has some of the best built heritage in the country and should be more protective.”
McAuliffe said she was surprised by the amount of attention a photo of the banner has generated online.
“It’s not just a listed building – it’s a protected structure,” she said.
The tower house was built 1450, according to the Urban Archaeological Survey for North Tipperary.
While it’s not included on the latest record of Protected Structures for North Tipperary, it is recorded on the 1998 Recorded Monuments list, Protected under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1994.
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More ‘good’ news. Every man for themselves, and a few locals doing the work a properly functoning would do.
And as for the things ONLY a government can do? Nothing but distant promises.
Classic Ireland.
Maybe if the rivers were cleaned up it might get rid of water quicker
@Max: your not allowed clean them out anymore.
@Max: Dredging rivers on a large scale was done in the 50′s and 60′s under the
Arterial Drainage Act, 1945. It was a measure to stop annual winter flooding of fields.
The rivers were deepened and widened and large flood banks built with the material.
The environmental impacts were huge. Salmon could no longer swim upstream in shallow rivers. Migratory water birds such as geese and ducks disappeared for lack of flooded fields.
There is a scheme to raise the river banks in Midelton, but without the worst side effects.
See https://www.floodinfo.ie/frs/en/midleton/home/
No doubt it will be contested all the way by the usual suspects.
Jeez is Cabbage Head a prophet now or just stating the obvious. Poverty is going to happen nationwide due to the taxes and increases we have to endure to fund Cabbage Head’s party’s policies. But he ain’t shouting about that!!
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