140,429 monuments. Who is minding them?
Every ringfort, holy well, tomb, castle and souterrain on the State record is protected by law, and most are checked by nobody for decades. Pick one near you, walk out, look, photograph, and say how it is. A person reads every report and passes damage on to the National Monuments Service and your county heritage officer.
Most monuments are on private land. Look from the road, or ask. Never dig, never cut, never move a stone.
How a report works
1. Find it
Search a townland or use your location. The map shows every recorded monument with the NMS description, so you know what you are looking for.
2. Look
From the road, public land, or with the landowner's say-so. Take two or three photos. Note scrub, stock damage, dumping, machinery, fresh digging.
3. Say how it is
One of six conditions, the threats you saw, a line or two. Your phone's position confirms you were there. First name only is shown.
4. It gets read
A person checks it and passes “damaged” and “gone” on to the National Monuments Service and the county heritage officer. You can adopt the monument and check it each season.