SHARING OPTIONS: It is an offence to carry out controlled burning of land or vegetation between 1 March and 31 September of any year. \Philip Doyle Monaghan Fire and Civil Protection has advised farmers to undertake a risk assessment prior to notifying their local authority of controlled burning. The advice follows a series of wildfires across the island of Ireland, which has seen hundreds of hectares of upland and SPA areas scorched. It is an offence to carry out controlled burning of land or vegetation between 1 March and 31 September of any year. Controlled burning is used to describe the planned and deliberate use of fire as a land management tool.