Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Mr. Rónán Swan:
To clarify, the site at Lismullin was picked up during archaeological investigations in advance of the commencement of road construction. I just wanted to highlight that. That was done by archaeologists under archaeological supervision, in advance of the commencement of road construction there. With regard to the treatment of archaeological sites and their landscape settings, we deal with it from an archaeological perspective, where the archaeological consultant will comment on the landscape. We absolutely take into account the landscape setting of monuments and the inter-relationship between monuments that are either within a scheme or surrounding a scheme. Separately, we also have landscape consultants and landscape specialists who address the issues of landscape in very great detail. I wanted to highlight those points for the committee.
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