Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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98. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will investigate the acquisition, for the State, of Tullira Castle, Adrahan, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48444/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Tullira Castle, built in 1882 with an adjoining fifteenth-century tower, is included in the Record of Monuments and Places maintained by my Department under the National Monuments Acts. Accordingly, it benefits from the range of protections afforded by that designation, including a requirement that any proposed works at the site must be notified to my Department. The Castle is further safeguarded through its listing in Galway County Council’s Record of Protected Structures under the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2012.

The property has been wonderfully restored and maintained by its owners. I do not consider that it would be of benefit to the property to include it among the national monuments or historic properties currently in my ownership, as Minister, even if the financial resources were available to me for this purpose.