Vol. 462 No. 5
115 Mr. S. Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht when the existing material from the Drumanagh Archaeological Site, Loughshinny, County Dublin, now stored in the National Museum will be catalogued and the results published. [4802/96]
As a result of investigations by officials of the National Museum over a period of approximately ten years, the museum holds a collection of antiquities which were recovered abroad and which may have originated from Drumanagh Fort, Loughshinny, County Dublin.
Legal action is ongoing and the precise provenance of the material is one of the matters which would fall to be determined by the Court. While work in cataloguing the material is in progress, until such time as these legal proceedings have been brought to a conclusion or terminated, and the provenance and other scientific details relating to the discovery are subsequently made available to museum officials, it will not be possible for the National Museum to publish details as to the material.
