Gardening for Biodiversity

Gardening for Biodiversity

Education & Training Natural Heritage & Biodiversity

Taking a very practical approach, the book details projects to help wildlife of all kinds under a range of headings, with tasks suitable for everyone from the total beginner to the more ambitious DIY enthusiast.

Produced by Local Authority Heritage Officers across Ireland, with help from the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Heritage Council.

View the accompanying colouring book below
Gardening For Biodiversity Colouring Book



  • Published by: The Heritage Officer Network
  • Author(s): Juanita Browne
Nature in the Park

Nature in the Park

Education & Training

ECO-UNESCO were delighted to launch 'Nature in the Park', a free resource for primary schools alongside Dublin City Council on May 22nd

  • Published by: ECO UNESCO and Dublin City Council
  • Author(s): ECO UNESCO
Heritage Festivals and Events: Marketing Checklist

Heritage Festivals and Events: Marketing Checklist

Education & Training

The purpose of this short document is to provide marketing advice to the organisers of heritage festivals or small heritage-related events. Checklists are included to provide focus and structure during the planning process as well as guidance on how best to reach target audiences.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
  • Author(s): The Heritage Council
Adopt a Monument: Guidance for Community Archaeology Projects

Adopt a Monument: Guidance for Community Archaeology Projects

Built/Urban Heritage & Archaeology Education & Training

This manual provides guidance on understanding and recording monuments, care and conservation, interpretation, communications, funding as well as health and safety. Aimed at the participants of our Adopt a Monument Programme but also communities the length and breadth of Ireland, and even internationally, who are interested in engaging in heritage projects.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
  • Author(s): Roisin Burke, Neil Jackman and Conor Ryan, Abarta Audio Guides
Children and the Outdoors

Children and the Outdoors

Market Research & Economic Evaluation Education & Training

Contact with the outdoors and natural heritage among children aged 5 to 12: Current trends, benefits, barriers and researdh requirements

The research was conducted for the Heritage Council at University College Cork under Professor Ursula Kilkelly of the School of Law. The research team was: Dr Helen Lynch and Alice Moore, School of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science; Dr Angela O’Connell and Sarah C Field, School of Law.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
Irish Lace

Irish Lace

Education & Training

Irish lace reflects the social and political changes that took place between 1700 and the present, and this is its story.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council with support from The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland
Guidance for the Care and Conservation and Recording of Historic Graveyards

Guidance for the Care and Conservation and Recording of Historic Graveyards

Built/Urban Heritage & Archaeology Education & Training

A guide for local communities with guidance and suggestions about the best way of keeping your graveyard in accordance with international best practice.

Keeping the graveyard in good condition is important to local people as it reflects pride in their parish and is an acknowledgement of the contribution our ancestors made to its development. This publication aims to provide local communities with guidance and suggestions.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
  • Author(s): The Heritage Council
What is Curtilage?

What is Curtilage?

Built/Urban Heritage & Archaeology Education & Training

In this document, Colm Murray, Heritage Council Architecture Officer, outlines the findings of a study on curtilage.

Protection of a protected structures extends to the land and structures lying within its curtilage. ‘Curtilage’ is the area of ground directly connected with the functioning or inhabitation of a structure, such as a yard, a basement or a passageway to the structure. 

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
  • Author(s): Colm Murray