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Flooded Homestead Re-emerges From Wicklow Reservoir
#Poulaphuca - The remains of an old homestead submerged by the Poulaphuca Reservoir have resurfaced, as RTÉ News reports.
Images captured by the Garda Air Support Unit in Wicklow clearly show the ruins of a house and a piece of farm machinery.
The ‘island’ was revealed by the retreat of reservoir waters in the recent summer drought that saw remarkable archaeological finds nationwide — as well as an ‘ÉIRE’ sign on Bray Head dating from the Second World War.
While patrolling the Wicklow division The Garda Air Support Unit noticed the ruins of a homestead and a piece of farm machinery (mowing bar) on a raised piece of land which had previously been submerges in the lakes. pic.twitter.com/JIco4vlgit
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) September 14, 2018
The farm was one of a number of properties abandoned before the valley was flooded to create Poulaphuca in 1940.
