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And also lose the complete use of your land because it now has a designated ring fort or fairy bush on it listed as a protected structure.

Or worse, hold up the construction of a motorway for a decade and lead to its eventual re-routing at the cost of millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latoon_fairy_bush

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You don't lose "the complete use of your land" because a small part of it is considered historically significant, it's not the US. You do get to wait for them to figure out the boundary though.

As for your Wikipedia link, it's a good idea to actually read the whole text in it.

small part. And if it is a “zero-sized” residential lot, you just S.O.L.

Again, it's not the US: are you just trying to come up with arguments that you can keep being angry about instead of knowing, or looking up, how this law's been used?

Didn’t realize that US is the scope of the OP article.

It's not, which is my point. Criticize it on the merits of how the law's used in Ireland instead of coming up with "things that happen" that don't happen.

And you would know that this didn't happened ... how?

Between the museum, the prospector, and the government, this is a stacked prisoner dilemma game; not worth playing.

'Lenihan himself mentioned in a 2009 interview that the National Road Authority "were forced to bend the road a little bit around the bush, which they did, which is fine. There was no need to demolish the bush at all. Just adjust the road a little bit and landscape the bush into the roadway"'

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