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Bru Na Boinne
Bru Na Boinne
Bru Na Boinne
Bru Na Boinne
Bru Na Boinne
Bru na Boinne

Brú na Bóinne

Landscape of Light and Time
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Sceilg Michil

Sceilg Mhichíl

An Island Monastery Towering over the Sea
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The Passage Tomb Landscape

The Passage Tomb Landscape of County Sligo

Sacred Neolithic Landscape
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The Royal Sites

Royal Sites of Ireland

Ancient Irish Sites of Royal Inauguration
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Transatlantic Cable Ensemble

Transatlantic Cable Ensemble

The Cable that Changed the World
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‘Tá idirleathadh leathan chultúir, agus oideachais an chine dhaonna i gcomhair ceartais, saoirse agus síocháin riachtanach do dhínit an duine agus mar dhualgas sácráilte ag gach tír meon comhoibrithe agus cúraim a chomhlíonadh’

Bunreacht EOECNA (UNESCO) 1945

Oidhreacht Dhomhanda

Eascraíonn an smaoineamh d’Oidhreacht Dhomhanda ó phrionsabail an cheartais, saoirse agus síocháin, a spreag gá le hoidhreacht chultúrtha agus nádúrtha atá ar chaighdeán Sár-Luach Uilíoch a chaomhnú go domhanda ionas go mbainfeadh glúnta an lae inniu agus na glúnta amach romhainn tairbhe astu.

Cuireadh Coinbhinsiún maidir le Cosaint Oidhreachta Chultúrtha agus Nádúrtha an Domhain ar bun ag EOECNA i 1972 agus daingníodh é in Éirinn i 1991. Is é an cuspóir a bhí leis ná tuiscint, síocháin agus comhoibriú idir tíortha a chothú ionas go gcaomhnófaí oidhreacht ar fud na cruinne. Den chéad uair riamh, aithníodh ag coinbhinsiún idirnáisiúnta go gcuimsíonn oidhreacht cultúr agus mar thoradh uirthi go mbíonn daoine ag idirghníomhú leis an dúlra.

Tá cuid de na samplaí is tábhachtaí d’oidhreacht chultúrtha agus nádúrtha ar domhan ar LIOsta Oidhreachta Domhanda EOECNA.

Láithreáin Oidhreachta Domhanda agus Ainmniúcháin UNESCO Eile

MarcóirCineál Láithreáin
Red MarkerRéadmhaoin Oidhreacht Domhanda
Blue MarkerMaoin Liosta Sealadach
Purple MarkerGnéithe Cuimhne an Domhain
Green MarkerTearmann Bithsféir
Yellow MarkerCathair Chruthaitheach
Orange MarkerGeopháirc Domhanda

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Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context

Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context

Posted on 26 November 2024

World Heritage Ireland Second Capacity Building Workshop On November 25-26, 2024, the National Monuments Service, in collaboration with the ICCROM World Heritage Leadership Programme and the Office of Public Works, successfully delivered a two-day workshop in Dublin focused on World Heritage Impact Assessment. This engaging event brought together over 80 participants working in the public and

New Scholarships to offer increased support for UNESCO World Heritage

Posted on 2 July 2024

Ireland is strengthening engagement, education, and capacity-building for World Heritage through two new scholarship programmes established by the National Monuments Service (NMS) in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD) and the Rome-based advisory body ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property). Over the next three

Facilitator appointed to lead newly established Brú na Bóinne Community Heritage Forum

Posted on 18 April 2024

To mark World heritage Day 2024 the National Monuments Service is announcing the establishment of a Brú na Bóinne Community Heritage Forum with the appointment of Ms Mona O’Rourke as lead facilitator for the project. The forum will enable the community to be more involved in making decisions about the management, presentation, interpretation and conservation of the site and will help them

Sceilg Mhichíl Community Climate Vulnerability Assessment Workshop

Posted on 28 March 2024

Sceilg Mhichíl is one of ten World Heritage Properties involved in the Preserving Legacies: A Future for our Past project, and is the only site selected in Europe. The aim of the project is to equip communities worldwide with the tools to accurately anticipate and assess worsening and future climate impacts on culture, and help them turn that scientific knowledge into action to safeguard

Sceilg Mhichíl Community Information Night

Posted on 28 March 2024

The National Monuments Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service, and the Office of Public Works are hosting a Community Information Night on Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property at the Portmagee Community Centre at 7pm on the 8 April 2024. The three state bodies will discuss their respective roles in relation to the management of the World Heritage Property and Natura 2000 Site and will be
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Sceilg Mhichíl Annual Report Archaeological Review 2024 Season Cover

Sceilg Mhichíl Annual Report Archaeological Review 2024 Season

Published on 20 February 2025

The archaeological review for the 2024 season provides an overview of works that necessitated archaeological oversight only and the nature of that oversight/monitoring on the World Heritage Property of Sceilg Mhichíl.
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Spiders and Other Invertebrates of Skellig Michael - Summary Report

Published on 17 February 2025

Skellig Michael was visited on a number of occasions through the summers of 2023 and 2024 with the object of surveying spiders and other invertebrates on the island. This summary report details some of the results so far obtained, offering a list of the spiders including numbers of specimens seen.
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Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report 2024

Published on 11 December 2024

The Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report outlines the repair works completed on the World Heritage Property in 2024.

Note: Appendix I refers to an internal report and so has not been uploaded.
Winter Solstice Phenomenon at Newgrange

Winter Solstice Phenomenon at Newgrange: Research Report 2024

Published on 5 December 2024

This report, commissioned by the National Monuments Service presents a comprehensive analysis of the high-resolution photographic and video recordings of the solar illumination inside the burial chamber at Newgrange passage tomb, located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne.
Seabird Report Cover 2023

A Summary of Seabird Monitoring on Sceilg Mhichíl 2020 – 2023

Published on 12 February 2024

Please find attached a report by NPWS describing seabird survey work between 2020 and 2023.

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