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EUROPE’S first ever large-scale au- dit of farm machinery is about to get underway in Clare.
The Clare Farm Machinery Audit aims to document unprotected early agricultural machinery and to estab- lish a strategy for the conservation of such items as seed drills, harrows, ploughs and rollers, horse carts and harvesting and haymaking machin- ery.
The Clare Heritage Office recently secured funding from the Heritage Council and Clare County Council to conduct the project.
East Clare-based — consultants Minogue Associates have been ap- pointed to conduct the audit. Re- orTKONSHUCMA YON MLO CCNLBE Rare TELOMmereyeel ODE Le an inventory of agricultural machin- ery in Clare and will allow for the future analysis of issues surrounding the future protection and role of farm machinery for education, historical awareness and museum and heritage centre accessibility.
“This tradition has bequeathed a significant amount of farm machin- ery dating from the late 19th- and early to mid-twentieth centuries,” explained Acting Clare Heritage Of- ficer, Tomas Mac Conmara.