Regarding this below ... .>>Urgent. Responses needed by 20 September. The below has just come to my notice and is of interest to anyone with Irish ancestory. It means the heritage of modern Ireland will have no statutory protection and thus has the potential to be lost. A short email to the people listed below might help to protect the heritage of the Irish now spread all over the world, that their descendants travel to Ireland to explore. >>Regards Elizabeth Roberts We wrote to the person involved and this is his reply : To: Maree Larsen Subject: Fwd: URGENT Proposed delisting of Irish Heritage post 1700 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian K Duffy - (DAHG) <[email protected]> Date: 19 September 2011 20:33 Subject: RE: URGENT Proposed delisting of Irish Heritage post 1700 The policy on the inclusion of post 1700 AD monuments in the Record of Monuments and Places is the subject of an ongoing review by the National Monuments Service. You may be aware that the inclusion of such monuments in the current RMP is not consistent across all counties and with a view to issuing a revised and updated RMP it is necessary to consider how best to ensure the protection of all elements of our archaeological heritage. Under the Regulations governing the issuing of the RMP it is not possible to add or remove monuments without reissuing the RMP for an entire county. Therefore there is no intention to alter the RMPs until such time as we are in a position to commence reissuing the RMPs county by county and this will not happen until we have completed our review and updating of the current RMPs and the formulation of the policy and criteria for inclusion of monuments. Brian K. Duffy Chief Archaeologist National Monuments Service Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht Room G40 Custom House Dublin 1 Tel. 01 8882103 email [email protected]