OVER 9 SQUARE KILOMETRES OF PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNISED ARCHAEOLOGY HAS RECENTLY BEEN DISCOVERED IN COUNTIES WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY. THIS TAKES THE FORM OF RADICALLY ALTERED UPLAND LANDSCAPE, PREDOMINANTLY OVER THE 600 METRE CONTOUR, UTILISING EXISTING QUATERNARY. THIS LANDSCAPE ALTERATION, ALTHOUGH SUBTLE, HAS SEVERAL DISTINCTIVE INDICATORS, INCLUDING THE DELIBERATE ANGLING OF ROCKS TOWARDS THE SKY, THE USE OF QUARTZ, AND THE USE OF CHOCK STONES. ALTHOUGH RECOGNISED AND ATTESTED BY SEVERAL GEOLOGISTS, THE IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ESTABLISHMENT STUBBORNLY REFUSES TO RECOGNISE THE FINDINGS. (SEE ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND, LETTERS, WINTER 2003.) PRESUMABLY THIS LANDSCAPE ALTERATION REPRESENTS BURIAL, AND IF SO THE 9 SQUARE KILOMETRES SO FAR DISCOVERED CONTAININS MANY THOUSANDS OF GRAVES. THIS FILLS A LARGE GAP IN THE IRISH PREHISTORIC BURIAL RECORD, BUT THE LANDSCAPE IS UNDER CONSTANT THREAT FROM FORESTRY AND SEVERAL OTHER ACTIVITIES. THE REFUSAL OF IRISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THESE FINDINGS IS AN ACT OF GROSS NEGLIGENCE AND INEPTITUDE. IT IS A SITUATION WHICH CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE ANY LONGER.