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Eighteen cases of damage or vandalism to national monuments have been reported this year, with historical sites such as the Hill of Tara and An Grianán of Aileach targeted.
A log of incidents from the Office of Public Works (OPW) details ceremonial fires being lit, the setting up of altars, holes being dug, graffiti and even vandalism of Covid-19 signage.
Five separate instances of damage or vandalism were reported at a single site, the Neolithic passage tombs of Loughcrew, Co Meath.
At the Hill of Tara, two separate instances were reported in which parts of the monument were damaged.
In one, the top of the Lia Fáil — or Stone of Destiny — monument was covered with a substance, believed to be a “water-based paint”, according to the log of incidents.
At the Mound of the Hostages passage tomb at the Hill of Tara, OPW records showed the entrance to the chamber gate was damaged and the lock removed.

In Co Kilkenny, around the ninth- century Killamery High Cross,  holes were dug on the site. They were later filled in by OPW workers.
Masonry was reported to have been moved from the ruins of a Romanesque church in Co Kerry.
The incident took place at Teampall na hÓige in Ardfert, with “repairs carried out and vulnerable areas of the structure hoarded off”.
At the Loughcrew complex near Oldcastle, Co Meath, which is believed to date from the fourth millennium BC, a series of incidents was recorded.
Between February and July, numerous instances of vandalism to kerbstone artwork on two cairns were reported.
In February, a Covid-19 public health sign was stolen from the site, while damage was reported to a “counter unit” earlier this year.
During April, graffiti was scratched on “elements of the various passage tombs”, while in June, a “little altar” was set up at two cairns, with one of them damaged by a fire.
In July, the Covid signage thieves were back and scraped graffiti into another cairn.
Other incidents recorded by the OPW include damage to an unnamed abbey church site, where locks were damaged and youths climbed into the monument by bending window rails.



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