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The text of a reminder (e-mail dated May 28, 2001) to Police Commissioner Pat Byrne is reproduced below.

There have been a number of responses. Please see further down this page.

Most recent page update: Saturday June 2nd 2001.

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From: William Finnerty
To: Police Commissioner Pat Byrne (Chief Officer, Garda Siochana)
Cc: Justice Minister John O'Donoghue ; Attorney General (Mr Michael McDowell) ; Heritage Minister Sile de Valera ; Heritage Minister Mary Coughlan ; Environment Minister Noel Dempsey ; Health Minister Micheal Martin ; Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney ; Prime Minister Bertie Ahern ; President Mary McAleese ; Senator Margaret Cox ; Environment Protection Agency ; An Taisce ; Bord Pleanala ; Heritage Council ; Mr Tom Kavanagh (Galway County Council Director of Environmental & Conservation Services)
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: 2nd Email to Garda Síochána regarding protection of ancient monuments in East Galway.

Dear Commissioner Byrne,

To date, I have not received any reply to my first e-mail to you dated May 9th 2001 (which is reproduced below).

The Post Office have informed me that the printed copy of the e-mail below which I sent to you through the registered post was "successfully delivered" by them to the correct address on May 10th 2001.

As I trust you will understand, and with due regard for the very considerable amount of time (and money) that I have now spent on local heritage and other environmental problems, I would like to be clear in my own mind that you are fully aware of the information I sent to you on May 9th 2001.

In case that for some reason you do not know about my registered letter to you of May 9th 2001, I have now added a scanned copy of it at the www page address immediately below. There is also a scanned copy of the associated Post Office registration receipt on the same page:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/gd-si-1.htm

In passing, I would like to mention that I have received a written reply from the Environment Protection Agency to the e-mail below; and that a part of their response states that Duchas have responsibilities regarding the protection of ancient monuments. However, and as I have already pointed out to Prime Minister Ahern (and others) several months ago, my past efforts at communicating the difficulties in question to Duchas have not produced any useful practical results that I know of: please see the 2nd paragraph of my letter dated October 11th 2000 to Prime Minister Ahern which is reproduced at the following www address:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/chaplefinnerty/letters7/oct-11-2000.htm#number

Finally, I would like you to be aware that (in a letter to me dated November 20th 2000) Justice Minister John O'Donoghue advised (in effect) to report to the Garda Síochána heritage problems of the type set out in the e-mail below. Now that I have done so, I would be very grateful for a written acknowledgement of receipt from you for the information in question (as requested earlier in the last paragraph of my letter to you of May 9th 2001).

Yours sincerely,

Mr. William Finnerty. 


----- Original Message -----

From: William Finnerty
To: Police Commissioner Pat Byrne (Chief Officer, Garda Siochana)
Cc: Environment Protection Agency ; An Taisce ; Bord Pleanala
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: Protection of ancient monuments in East Galway.

Dear Commissioner Byrne,

On April 14th last I suddenly noticed (while driving in the area) that major changes had recently been made to a very interesting looking field beside the Hill of Grange (which is within a mile or so from where I live). 

The Hill of Grange (near the village of New Inn) is listed under the reference numbers 3383 (page 310), and 4013 (page 423) in the "Archaeological Inventory of County Galway" (ISBN reference: 0-7076-6179-X). This book is produced by Duchas, and published in 1999 by The Government Stationary Office.

Later that day (i.e. April 14th), I visited Loughrea Garda Barracks at around 6 p.m. and (in effect) asked the Gardie to find out if the very recent field alterations near Grange were made in accordance with the laws laid down in the National Monuments Act, 1930 (and the subsequent Amendments to this Principal Act).

As I recall it, the person I spoke with at Loughrea Barracks told me his name was Garda John Keena; that my visit that day (April 14th) was logged under the reference number 1220; and that the matter of the field alterations would be investigated. Since then, I have not heard anything from Loughrea Garda Barracks.

On the evening of Friday April 20th I had a conversation with the local Garda for New Inn village (Mr.Tom Kenny). He informed me that he had not heard anything about my visit to Loughrea Barracks the previous Saturday. However, and as I recall our conversation, he said that he would inquire at Loughrea the following day, and that he would drop in to see me on the following Monday or Tuesday (i.e. April 23rd or 24th 2001). To date he has not called, and neither have I heard anything at all from him.

As I believe I mentioned to Garda Tom Kenny on April 20th, I do have photographs of the field in question: which were taken before and after the alterations referred to above; and I have in the meantime placed copies of two of these photographs on the semi-private www page address provided immediately below:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/grange.htm

For the purpose of drawing attention to the fact that there are other ongoing environmental type problems in the New Inn area at present (apart from the one at Grange), I also (on April 14th) handed Garda John Keena a printed copy of the Email dated April 12th 2001 to Mr.Tom Kavanagh of Galway County Council. The full text of the Email in question is reproduced at the following www page address:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/gcc.htm  

The first paragraph of the Email to Mr.Kavanagh (at the www address immediately above) refers to a new £30 million pound ESB project involving large pylons and overhead cables: which appear to run very close to, and/or over, several ancient monuments (of one kind or another) in the East Galway area. I have now placed some photographic evidence connected with this matter at the following www page address:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/esb-proj.htm  Additional evidence can be seen by looking through the full 69 page set of the ESB project drawings; and, I (and others) are wondering if the planning permission - WHICH HAS NOW BEEN GRANTED - to the ESB by Galway County Council is in accordance with the laws laid down in the National Monuments Act, 1930 (and the subsequent Amendments to this Act) ? 

Still more threats to ancient monuments in the East Galway area are listed at the following www location:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/turoe.htm#threat 

I would be very grateful to you if you could let me have written acknowledgement of receipt for this letter within the coming 14 days please. To cover for the possibility of Email delivery problems, I intend to send you a printed copy of this letter through the registered post later today.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. William Finnerty. 

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Replies


Replies to the above e-mail of May 28th 2001 to Commissioner Byrne:

(1) An e-mail dated May 30th 2001 has been received from The Garda Síochána. It came from Superintendent John F. Forde (Private Secretary to Commissioner Byrne). Superintendent Forde has stated that the above information has been forwarded to The Assistant Commissioner of Police (Western Region), at Mill Street Police Station in Galway City.

(2) A reply has also been received from Mr Noel Dempsey, T.D., Minister for the Environment and Local Government (in an e-mail dated May 28th 2001). He has forwarded the above information to Minister Sile de Valera T.D. (at the Department of  Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands) for her attention and direct reply.

(3) Acknowledgements of receipt have also been received from An Bord Pleanála (in an e-mail dated May 28th 2001), and from the Environment Protection Agency (also in an e-mail dated May 28th 2001) .

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