Publications & Reports

In this issue:
Archiving Design: Cataloguing images from the Kilkenny Design Workshops - This issue touches on the history of the Kilkenny Design Workshops, its current importance as a center of economic trade in Kilkenny, and the project currently underway to record its visual past and present.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
The Natural History of Ulster - Photographs from John Faulkner & Robert Thomson’s new publication
An Art of Place- The Townlands Project, Alan Counihan & Gypsy Ray
The Global Biodiversity Strategy - What does it mean for Ireland?

Plus:
New Research on Children in Nature • Repairing the walls of Athenry • Conservation of a Linhay Building • Monumental Lighting
Education News • Conservation Internships

This study is intended to inform future discussion of Action 18 of the Government Policy on Architecture by establishing a relevant analysis of the facts of existing grant-giving. It emphasises that different amounts of funding can achieve different aims – from providing moral support to the owners of buildings of heritage value, through support for employment, skills diversification and material supplied, as well as keeping the weather out in familiar and cherished buildings.

The report sets out the architectural and historic significance of the structure and describes the present condition of the building. It documents proposed restoration, conservation and maintenance works which have the objective of restoring the pre-existing character of the building. These consist principally of works to repair the garden façade ashlar stonework and the roof.

Preliminary findings from an archaeological building recording and excavation project that was undertaken in April-May 2011 at the Robing Room, located within the grounds of the former episcopal Palace of the Diocese of Ossory, now the headquarters of the Heritage Council.

The carbon footprint for the multi-disciplinary LCA CPD Course September 2010 is five tonnes of CO2 from car travel and fossil fuels associated with heating and electricity usage at training venues

The appendix provides details of respondents answers to survey.

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. 

It is based on the work of the Heritage Council and many of its Irish and European partners in seeking, over a ten-year period, to promote the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (ELC).

Based on the work of the Heritage Council and many of its Irish and European partners in seeking, over a ten-year period, to promote the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (ELC). 

The research approach was an agreed questionnaire, measuring awareness, understanding and impact of its loss in the April No.2 wave of B&A’s 'Barometer' survey. Barometer is a nationally representative survey of the adult population, aged 16+, quota controlled on gender, age, social class and region to correctly reflect the known demographics of the Republic of Ireland. It comprises of 1,000 interviews. The fieldwork took place between 13th - 22nd April, 2010.