Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 12 July 2018
762. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 27 June 2018, the details of the local investigations under way into the suspected mass Famine grave; and the guidance issued by her Department in this regard. [31673/18]
View answerThe advice given in response to the enquiries received by my Department in this case was that, by establishing the identity of local landowners in the nineteenth century and by clarifying the proximity of the granite pillar to any former demesnes/estates, related historical documents might provide information that would be helpful in establishing the origins of the pillar. That guidance also took account of data from the First Edition Ordnance Survey maps that is indicative of such historical land use in the area.
