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A special Heritage Council publication featuring stories from heritage officers in every county is being launched today to mark 25 years since the Heritage Officer Network was founded. The booklet, ‘Opening the door to Ireland’s heritage’ details one key heritage project from each local authority from the last three years which collectively, highlight the enormous contribution the Network has made to the preservation of our heritage over the last quarter of a century.

Farmer Brian Mac An Tullie recently participated in the Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme, a project supported by the Heritage Council and The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Galway County Council has picked up one of the main accolades at the Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2023 for its innovative digital project that mapped over 40,000 graveyard memorial records across County Galway and made them publicly available online.

Loughrea will host a feast of free events this weekend as part of the Loughrea Medieval Festival, taking place from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, August 27.

Athlone Castle Visitor Centre will host a number of events during the closing days of Heritage Week 2023 which culminates on Sunday, August 20.

More than 50 blacksmiths and traditional iron smelters from across Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA will participate in a showcase of medieval iron smelting and forging in the heart of the Burren in County Clare on the weekend of August 26-27.

Athlone Castle Visitor Centre will once again deliver an exciting and engaging programme of events during National Heritage Week 2023 (August 12-20), in collaboration with a broad selection of specialist experts, facilitators, artisans and historians, supported by the Heritage Council under the Irish Walled Towns Network 2023 Interpretation Fund.

Numerous events will take place in Athlone and throughout County Westmeath to mark National Heritage Week 2023 from Saturday, August 12 to Sunday, August 20.

Over 40,000 graveyard memorial records are now being released as part of Galway County Digital Mapping of Graveyards Project. The aim of the project is to support communities and diaspora to connect with their past by unlocking valuable graveyard data sources and making them available as open-source data that will be free for all to use.

Athlone Castle Visitor Centre will once again deliver an exciting and engaging programme of events during National Heritage Week 2023 (August 12-20), in collaboration with a broad selection of specialist experts, facilitators, artisans and historians, supported by the Heritage Council under the Irish Walled Towns Network 2023 Interpretation Fund.