Clear up status of our pre-1916 historic sites

Minister Aodháin O’Riordáin in a Dáil reply (July 9) on the proposed NAMA auction of the last extant 1916 battlefield referred to no’s 14 -17 Moore Street as being “the only pre-1916 buildings on the street”.

This is a misleading and inaccurate statement.

A cursory glance at the Battlefield Report submitted to the minister’s department on behalf of Chartered Land shows ‘surviving pre-1916 built fabric visible from the public realm’. (Figure 6 in that report).