Heritage Council urges action to ensure Browne family can continue to run the house

Browne family have ‘reluctantly’ decided to put Co Mayo tourist site on the market

Heritage Council suggests incentive to live in historic centres

Without their historic buildings and monuments, Ireland’s towns and villages become anywhere places

Our industrial history is often overshadowed by Britain’s. National Heritage Week wants us to celebrate a legacy that paved the way for how we live today

Volunteers are more important than ever to our communities and to our awareness of our past, says the chairman of the Heritage Council

The Heritage Council has created a valuable network of community-based projects in its first 20 years. But it has lost two-thirds of its funding, jeopardising its crucial work

Kevin Desmond has restored a listed Georgian house, once a finishing school for girls, to its former glory. Period restorations require hard work and expert advice he says

Body claims tourism will suffer if cuts continue

Study of carcasses shows over 85 per cent had traces of common rodenticides

Organisers say recession has led to a stronger sense of heritage

Watch whales, archive your attic, make a basket or live like a monk. National Heritage Week is packed with activities and here’s just a taster. . .

With office rents down, and a change in the bedsits law, converting substantial Georgian buildings back into homes is an attractive prospect – but how do you do it?

Beara-Briefne Way combines 12 trails across 10 counties