There is a duty on a person who finds an object being an archaeological object lying in, under land or the seabed to report it to the Director of the National Museum of Ireland or a designated person.<\/p>\n
There is a duty on a person who finds a wreck which is more than 100 years old that is lying in or under the seabed or on land covered by water to report it within four days to the OPW or Garda Siochana.<\/p>\n
The Minister for Finance may pay a person who has found an archaeological object or the owner of land in which it was found a reward at its discretion.\u00a0 This does not imply any ownership in the object concerned.<\/p>\n\n
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National Monuments The National Monuments Legislation is designed to protect and preserve national monuments and archaeological objects.\u00a0A monument is any artificial building or partly artificial building or structure. Any stone or other natural product that has been artificially carved, sculptured or worked upon Any prehistoric tomb, grave or burial deposit or ritual, industrial or habitation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30742,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions\/30742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}