Waterways Ireland wishes to advise all masters and users of the Shannon Navigation that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in exercise of the powers conferred on him in section 3(1) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1987 (No.17 of 1987) has ordered that the area of land covered by water (being the River Shannon) between Ballymacegan Island Townland, Co. Tipperary and Tiranascragh Townland, Co. Galway as delineated on the map below is designated under section 3(1) of the Act as a restricted area within the meaning of that term under the Act.
Section 3(3) of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1987 states as follows:
Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not, in a restricted area, do any of the following, that is to say:
(a) tamper with, damage or remove any part of a wreck or any archaeological object,
(b) carry out diving, survey or salvage operations directed to the detection, location or exploration of a wreck or archaeological object or to recovering it or a part of it from, or from under, the sea bed or from land covered by
water, as the case may be, or use equipment constructed or adapted for any purpose of diving, survey or salvage operations, or
(c) deposit, so as to fall and lie abandoned on the sea bed or land covered by water, as the case may be, anything which, if it were to fall on the site of a wreck or archaeological object (whether it so falls or not), would wholly or partly obliterate the site or obstruct access to it, or damage any part of the wreck or object.
Waterways Ireland thanks its customers for their co-operation in relation to this matter.
P Harkin
Inspector of Navigation
28 July 2023