A farmer in Co Antrim has been fined £2,000 for unauthorised works to a scheduled monument which has existed for more than 1,000 years.
Irish Legal News writes:
… The court heard that he caused damage to an ancient field system near Moorfields, Co Antrim, which was declared a scheduled monument in 1987…
Mr Hunter, a retired sheep farmer, had previously pleaded guilty… The maximum fine the court could impose was £5,000….
… Judge McCormick stated while the area was small in… overall surface area of the protected site… part of the field system had been destroyed by work that ought never to have occurred…
