{"id":43945,"date":"2025-09-02T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43945"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:38:40","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-farmers-doorstep-northern-ireland-farmer-fined-for-damage-to-1000-year-old-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43945","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (farmer\u2019s) doorstep\u2019: Northern Ireland farmer fined for damage to 1,000-year-old monument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A farmer in Co Antrim has been fined \u00a32,000 for unauthorised works to a scheduled monument which has existed for more than 1,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Irish Legal News<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 The court heard that he caused damage to an ancient field system near Moorfields, Co Antrim, which was declared a scheduled monument in 1987\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hunter, a retired sheep farmer, had previously pleaded guilty\u2026 The maximum fine the court could impose was \u00a35,000\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 Judge McCormick stated while the area was small in\u2026 overall surface area of the protected site\u2026 part of the field system had been destroyed by work that ought never to have occurred\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishlegal.com\/articles\/northern-ireland-farmer-fined-for-damage-to-1000-year-old-monument\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer in Co Antrim has been fined \u00a32,000 for unauthorised works to a scheduled monument which has existed for more than 1,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43974,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions\/43974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}