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I recieved this in the mail this morning:

<b>I was delighted to find pictures of the archaeological monuments located at Carrig, Co. Wicklow on your web site.

The Carrig Concerned Residents group, of which I am a member, is currently trying to get a preservation order on these monuments and their environs. Over the past year the fields containing the Passage Tomb have been "reclaimed for agricultural purposes" causing irreparable damage to this site. Your photographs are possibly the only remaining record of what was once there.

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Yours sincerely,

Catherine Breslin
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I'll fill in some more detail as soon as I can. In the meantime the possible only photographs are here:

http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/828

As you will see there was not a great deal left anyway. The townland once had 4 PTs and a wedge tomb http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/462 ... The last two remaining passage tombs seem to have been trashed since I visited 14 months ago.

Christ, what an appalling shame.
:-(
J
x

How depressing. I guess it could happen to so many sites, and presumably does.

:-(#

K x

Thats a real shame! Will you go back and take photos from the same spot as before to show a before and after?
I suppose the stones will find their way onto Ebay sometime soon :(
PeteG

Well, to me it seem that some of the fuss was for nothing. Compare this old piccie and this more recent one.

It appears as if the site has been cleaned up. I wonder if it was excavated.