This year's drought has revealed an old farmstead and agricultural implements that were submerged in Blessington lakes, Co Wicklow. The Garda Air Support Unit took pictures from the air of the raised piece of land which had been under water for nearly 100 years.
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 dam at Poulaphuca was built in the 1930s, creating the reservoir that is known as the Blessington lakes. A visit to the www.poulaphuca.com website gives an overview of the sites that were submerged by the construction of the reservoir.
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