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AN ANCIENT LOG BOAT has been found on the banks of the River Boyne in Drogheda.
The find was made by a member of Boyne Fisherman’s Rescue and Recovery group (BFRR) during a check of the river.
“We routinely take trolleys out of the river,” PRO Sean Cahill explained. Such items are dangerous for divers so the group does regular surveys to ensure objects are removed.
With the Maritime Festival coming up, the divers wanted the place to look good, said Cahill. Two members of the BFRR, Christy Finglas and Michael Hodgins, were on a boat travelling along the River Boyne when Finglas spotted what he thought could be a log boat.
Pic: Sean Cahill/Boyne Fisherman’s Rescue and Recovery Service
He was familiar with its shape as the BFRR had been involved in the retrieval of a similar log-boat a number of years ago.
With the river at low tide, Finglas could make out the shape of the boat and alerted Hodgins to it. They knew “that it wasn’t an ordinary piece of debris”, said Cahill. The boat was embedded under where the water would normally be, and its outline was visible due to the lower tide level.
Pic: Sean Cahill/Boyne Fisherman’s Rescue and Recovery Service
They contacted Cahill and then the National Museum, who sent out an archaeologist specialising in such finds. “I think he was surprised,” said Cahill, who said it is believed this log boat is a different type to the one found a few years ago.
Underwater archaeologist with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Karl Brady, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that it appears to be an ancient style log boat, and that only a small part is exposed.
Pic: Sean Cahill/Boyne Fisherman’s Rescue and Recovery Service
Such boats have been in use for 7 – 8000 years in Irish waters, but judging by some features on the boat, such as hollows that may have been for oars, it might date from the 15 – 18th century, he added.
Log boats were used for fishing and transporting goods.
The boat is significantly submerged, but Brady said that layers of silt mean it is well preserved. The site will be monitored and the boat will most likely be kept in the river bed, unless it begins to deteriorate and conservation is needed.
Ned Kelly, keeper of antiquities at the National Museum, said that there have been a number of finds of log boats and other objects in the River Boyne, and some of them have probably been swept down the river. He said that log boats were used in Ireland since the earlier times and that the Boyne is a particularly important river.
A previous log boat find included a slave chain, slave collar and skull with cut marks on it. However, it doesn’t appear there are any items to be found as yet in this newly-discovered log boat. Kelly added that a radiocarbon sample will be extracted from the vessel in order to date it.
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Not that much of a mystery, the appellant shares an office address with a national cinema operator, who would be well known in the industry. Whats going on with the non-existent company name on the objection letter is anyone’s guess, but I think the origin is obvious enough.
@Rochey77: Zero sympathy for any REIT. Pay very little Tax, purchased 95% of apartments last year and as a result not allowing first time buyers get onto the property ladder. And increasing the rental prices
@Whoswho: Green REIT portfolio has zero residential.
Just throw out the planning laws and start again. If you want to object to any development what so ever the burden of proof needs to be on the objector to satisfactorily demonstrate that the development will have a material negative effect on existing property, quality of life or success of business, with obvious exceptions such as competition not being a valid reason.
Our planning system is tedious, slow, costly and regardless of the size of the project it just takes one hoop one the other side of the country to delay the whole thing by years and end up in the high court.
I’d go so far as to say frivolous and malicious objections should be a criminal offense.
@Sean Fahey: hear hear
Was it not someone in Wicklow objecting to Apples planned development in Galway a few years ago and we wonder why everything takes forever ……
@Sean Higgins: And said Wicklow based objector also had land in their native county, which they were trying to build their own data centre on…..
@Stephen Small: And said objector drinks the odd time in Delgany village and is hissed at and reviled
@Stephen Small: Imagine that. No conflict of interests at all. Pretty sure that’s not why we have a planning system, for rivals to object under fake names.
@Sean Higgins: They were from Cork and proved that every man and woman in Ireland would end up paying carbon tax on the electricity they use. We have more data centres per person in Ireland cause we are so kind.
Amazing. One objector stops this, yet hundreds couldn’t stop development at St Anne’s Park?
@Al Moore: one objection has not stopped it, just put an obstacle in its way. It would only be stopped if An Bord Pleanála refuses it. Besides, planning issues are not a vote. It doesn’t matter how many people object, if there is no planning reason to refuse something it won’t be refused.
@Al Moore: I thought there was a shortage of places to live in Dublin? These apartments are being built beside St Anne’s Park, not inside it.
An taisce special agent?
This was how people would extort money out of developers back in the 80s.
No descision until April? For crying out loud, there must be some way of speeding up this kind of process. A fake objection and a 5 month wait is nonsense.
Picture This
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What’s the mystery? It’s IMC, who own the Savoy.
“Second Troika” needed to sort the “Planning HSE” …. “Official Objectors” …
Jail if you build your own house …. Breanndan Begley – Kerry
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0219/1116382-breanndan-begley-kerry/
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