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kidja
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Poison Lands
« on: Thursday 10 July 08 12:12 BST (UK) »
Hi,

While searching through newspaper archives i found entries on 3 consecutive days in December 1887 from people in Meath declaring that their lands were poison.

Some of the entries were for individuals and others were for townlands eg Staleen and contained the names of a number of invidividuals

Does anyone know what this means?

Kidja
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bellew, neary co. meath, gleeson, shannon,shanahan, smythe co kildare, murphy, clarke, higgins, twyford, farrell co. wicklow
Christopher
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Re: Poison Lands
« Reply #1 on: Friday 24 April 09 23:47 BST (UK) »
Hi Kidja,

I think Poisoned Lands are the same as Contaminated Land which occurs where there are substances in, or under the land, that are hazardous to human health or the environment. Land contamination usually results from past industrial and business use although in some cases it is possible that hazardous substances may occur from natural causes.

Christopher
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aghadowey
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Re: Poison Lands
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 25 April 09 00:04 BST (UK) »
Already answered on Kidja's other thread:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,315138.msg1977275.html#msg1977275
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Christopher
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Re: Poison Lands
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 25 April 09 00:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: aghadowey on Saturday 25 April 09 00:04 BST (UK)
Already answered on Kidja's other thread:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,315138.msg1977275.html#msg1977275

Typical ... threads relating to the same query all over the place Cool
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