Clare to audit old farm equipment

EUROPE’S first ever large-scale audit of farm machinery is being undertaken in Co Clare. It aims to document unpro-tected early agricultural machinery and to establish a strategy for their conservation.

Seed drills, harrows, ploughs, rollers, horse carts and harvesting and haymaking machinery will be the main focus of the Clare Farm Machinery Audit.

Clare Heritage Office recently secured funding from the Heritage Council and Clare County Council to conduct the project, as part of the implementation of the Clare Heritage Plan for 2007.