New Podcast Series - Putting Town Centres First
A podcast series to raise awareness and understanding of key issues now confronting our historic town centres.
Our Featured Initiatives
Historic Towns Initiative
An initiative to promote heritage-led regeneration and to improve the quality of our historic towns and villages for residents and tourists.
Collaborative Town Centre Health Check Training Programme
A trans-disciplinary Collaborative Town Centre Health Check Training Programme in conjunction with participating towns across the country.
Homeowner Maintenance Advice
The Homeowner Maintenance Advice is a series of leaflets produced in partnership with SPAB Ireland.
Heritage Maps
Find or identify heritage sites and explore heritage data sets anywhere in Ireland.
Heritage in Schools Scheme
Encourage greater awareness in your school of Ireland’s rich built, natural and cultural heritage with an engaging and stimulating visit from one of our Heritage in Schools experts.
Adopt a Monument
A scheme to help communities become actively involved in the conservation and interpretation of their local archaeological and cultural heritage sites.
Museum Standards Programme for Ireland
MSPI promotes professional standards in the care of collections in Irish museums and galleries. The programme recognises the achievement of those standards through accreditation.
Covid-19 Heritage Sector Survey
In April this year the Heritage Council launched a survey into the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the heritage sector in Ireland.
LEGO® brick Competition
Competition for LEGO® brick enthusiasts aged 4-12 years themed on the built, natural and cultural heritage of Ireland.
GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme
An annual grants scheme for the conservation and repair of traditional farm buildings and related structures for farmers in the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS)
Traditional Building Skills Initiative
The continued existence of a built landscape is dependent on there being enough people with traditional building skills to maintain and sensitively modify this finite resource.
Irish Walled Towns Network
Formed by the Heritage Council in 2005, the role of the IWTN is to help the Walled Towns of Ireland become better places in which to live, work and visit.
