In collaboration with the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, the National Monuments Service delivered the international seminar ‘World Heritage nomination journey: Challenges and Successes’ sharing insights from European case studies to support the Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2025–2035.

BUILDINGS ARCHAEOLOGY BURSARY 2026 The National Monuments Service is delighted to invite applications for its annual bursary scheme for a one-year course in buildings archaeology [email protected] @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @archiremag.bsky.social #ATU #BuildingsArchaeology #ClimatEireitage

If you're interested in the archaeology of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, take a look at Aidan Harte & Jo Brück's Storymap for East Limerick! Storymap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0eea... Project information: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... @researchireland.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social

CALENDAR MONUMENTS– January 2026 #RoundTowersOfIreland Donaghmore, Co Meath standing almost 27m tall. From our NMS Calendar 2026. tinyurl.com/yc6vpbpj heritageireland.ie/unguided-sit... #HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030 @opwireland.bsky.social

Irish #WorldHeritage sites and Tentative List sites can now benefit from an additional €350,000 in capital investment funding aimed at their safeguarding. Further information here: bit.ly/4q2JIFB

Join the OPW National Monuments Service as an apprentice Stonecutter/Stonemason! Learn traditional skills while conserving heritage. Apply now: gov.ie/opw #Stonecutting #Stonemasonry #HeritageConservation #TraditionalSkills #Craftsmanship #NationalMonuments #Apprenticeship #CulturalHeritage

Climate change continues to impact archaeological heritage, especially with increased frequency and severity of storm activity. In January 2025 Storm Éowyn felled four trees at an ecclesiastical site in Lemanaghan, Co Offaly. For more www.rte.ie/news/leinste... #CMF2025 #ClimatEireitage

Landowners and land users, who are considering carrying out works, including land clearance or land reclamation, are urged to #CheckBeforeYouDig to identify if there are archaeological monuments present before works are carried out. More information here www.gov.ie/.../campaign... #ProtectOurPast

Delighted to be #StripeYSTE alongside @nbhsireland.bsky.social & #DeptHousingIRL colleagues. Come find us to learn about 🤿🌊underwater cultural heritage, #climatechange adaptation for our built & archaeological heritage. 📝📊Share your thoughts #ClimatEireitage #UCHIreland #HeritageIreland2030

CALENDAR MONUMENTS– December 2025 Carrigafoyle Castle, Co. Kerry #CastlesOfIreland Amongst the salt marshes of Ballylongford Bay in the Shannon Estuary stands a 15th century tower house. heritageireland.ie/unguided-sit... #HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030 @opwireland.bsky.social

📻Listen back to Dr. Connie Kelleher, senior archaeologist with @nationalmons.bsky.social on Ireland’s ratification of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #UNESCO #UCHIreland

📹Newgrange Winter Solstice Experience the #WinterSolstice live from Newgrange on 21 December from 8:40am tinyurl.com/mvxhppe2 #ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WorldHeritage #BrighterDaysAhead @opwireland.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=BAfZ...

📹WATCH BACK from the 8th Annual @nationalmons.bsky.social Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions ‘Crossing boundaries, challenging divisions: integrating archaeology into post-Troubles conflict transformation’ by Prof Audrey Horning youtu.be/1q9lFL4k4b8 #HeritageIreland2030

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting. Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment. 🔗www.gov.ie/solstice#WinterSolstice#Newgrange#ShareTheSolstice

📹WATCH BACK from the 8th Annual NMS Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions 'The Liminal Point: Broadboyne Bridge, Finn mac Cumaill, and the Barony Boundaries of Co. Meath' by Paul Gosling @atu-ie.bsky.social youtu.be/jE02ELIBN6I #HeritageIreland2030

📢Last month the second iteration of the Built and Archaeological Heritage Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan (B&AH-SAP) was approved by Government and introduced to stakeholders. Read more tinyurl.com/276weh4y #ClimatEireitage #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation @nbhsireland.bsky.social

📹WATCH BACK from the 8th Annual NMS Conference #WithinWithout2025 'Becoming American: the archaeology of enslavement and racialisation at the Isaac Royall Hose, an eighteenth-century Massachusetts slaveholding estate' by Dr @alexkachan.bsky.social youtu.be/YTUez9MBQDo #HeritageIreland2030

A beautiful new limited edition book on the Spanish Armada in Ireland is available now at wordwellbooks.com. This stunning book is a collaboration between @nationalmons.bsky.social, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Real Academia de la Historia.

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain" Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo... @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

🎅NMS Christmas Draw Win 2 copies of #RoundTowersOfIreland 2026 calendar. Produced by our NMS Photographic Archive Unit. 50 lucky people will be drawn at random on 16 Dec. One entry per person w/ full postal address to [email protected] Ádh mór! #HeritageWellbeing @opwireland.bsky.social

Some quiet moments spent by visitors to archaeological monuments. #EYASilence From our historic print collection. 📷Ardmore Cathedral, Co Waterford 📷Carrowmore, Co Sligo (Welch 1896) #Day4 #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYACiúnas #ExploreYourArchive @araukie.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Two #medievalmonuments standing proud for #Day3 of #ExploreYourArchive 📷Hook Head Lighthouse, Co. Wexford 📷Clough Oughter Castle, Co. Cavan #EYA2025 #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYAMedieval #EYAMeánaoiseach #Archives @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

📹WATCH BACK from the 8th Annual @NationalMons Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions 'Behind the façade: materiality, craft and display at the Provost’s House' Dr Melanie Hayes @tcddublin.bsky.social youtu.be/X2CdgFT9vek #HeritageIreland2030 @archiremag.bsky.social

#Day2 Ireland’s archaeological monuments are enhanced by the #beauty of the surrounding landscape. 📷Killeshin Church, Co. Laois 📷Muckross Abbey, Co. Kerry 📷Glendalough, Co. Wicklow #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann #EYAÁilleacht @araireland.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Only a few hours left until we come together with archaeologists across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...

CALENDAR MONUMENTS– November 2025 Pallas Castle, Co. Galway #CastlesOfIreland A five-storey tower house built by the Burkes in the 15th c. The defences were strengthened in the 16th c. with the construction of a bawn and a gatehouse. @opwireland.bsky.social #HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030

It’s nearly time! This Friday, archaeologists from across the UK & Ireland will come together in Belfast for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards to celebrate the projects, ideas, and community stories shaping archaeology today. Catch the ceremony live on YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/@CouncilforB...

📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual @NationalMons Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions 'Inside, outside and through town walls: urban–rural relationships in late medieval Ireland' by Dr Margaret Murphy youtu.be/ulvetVJT62k #HeritageIreland2030 @archiremag.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Join us for the 2nd Tara By Name, Tara By Nature workshop with Abarta Heritage: The Creamery Store, Kildorrery Tues 25th November 7pm All welcome to come, have a cuppa & share folklore, myths & legends about Kildorrery @heritagecouncil.ie @researchireland.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

🌍 COP30 is underway in Brazil—climate action is urgent. What can archaeology teach us about resilience and sustainability? Our series, The Climate Crisis and Archaeology, dives into how climate change impacts the historic environment 📖 Learn more: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

We're looking forward to the 2nd Tara By Name, Tara By Nature workshop with Abarta Heritage: The Creamery Store, Kildorrery Tues 25th November 7pm All welcome to come, have a cuppa & share folklore, myths & legends about Kildorrery @researchireland.ie @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Wishing Ciara McCarthy well in her career as an underwater archaeologist in Ireland! This follows recent commercial dive qualifications supported by the @nationalmons.bsky.social dive grant scheme. #UCHIreland #underwaterarchaeology @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @nautarchsoc.bsky.social

📻Listen back to Dr Connie Kelleher on ‘Morning Ireland’ discussing why taking action to safeguard #SceilgMhichíl due to climate change is needed. Read more here bit.ly/47EWILG #WorldHeritage #PreservingLegacies #ClimatEireitage #ProtectOurPast www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @opwireland.bsky.social

The Sceilg Mhichíl Climate Vulnerability Assessment Report has been published. Developed under @preservinglegacies.bsky.social by NMS & @opwireland.bsky.social It outlines potential future risks by climate change & adaptation measures to safeguard the site. bit.ly/47EWILG #WorldHeritage

📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual @NationalMons Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions ‘Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100’ Professor Aidan O’Sullivan @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social youtu.be/NQLhzY3pl0Y

📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual @nationalmons.bsky.social Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions 'Dykes as deeds? Re-evaluating linear earthworks from early medieval Britain' Prof Howard Williams, University of Chester youtu.be/uCKLWJt-0iE #HeritageIreland2030

📹WATCH BACK from the recent 8th Annual NMS Conference #WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions. ‘Where power lies: rethinking Ireland’s Iron Age linear earthworks as territorial oppida’ by @nationalmons.bsky.social archaeologist Cóilín Ó Drisceoil youtu.be/ac4MhNbAf-w #HeritageIreland2030

CALENDAR MONUMENTS– October 2025 Coolhull Castle, Co. Wexford #CastlesOfIreland A well-preserved, three-storey hall house with a western service tower. Constructed in the early 16th c. by the Devereux family. tinyurl.com/4y3ck4pf #HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030 @opwireland.bsky.social

🎃As Oíche Shamhna approaches @nationalmons.bsky.social and @opwireland.bsky.social urge you to #ProtectOurPast by not lighting fires🔥 at heritage sites. Help to preserve our monuments for future generations to enjoy and learn from.🎃 👉 tinyurl.com/3pn7cnkr #LeaveNoTrace #StaySafe #HappyHalloween

Conservation work has recently commenced at Cloyne Round Tower, which dates to the 10th/11th c. It rises to seven floors over basement and is finished with a distinctive battlemented top. @nationalmons.bsky.social is pleased to support this project. #CMF2025 #ClimatEireitage #HeritageIreland2030

#WithinWithout2025 The Archaeology of Partitions, 8th Annual @NationalMons Conference. Exploring how partitions-seen and unseen-shape our landscapes, histories and communities. All lectures now on our YouTube channel. tinyurl.com/mm6cphuk 🙏to the speakers, chairs & all involved. #HeritageIreland2030

The CHERISH webmap is now live! Here’s an exciting new tool we've been working on – all the CHERISH Project data that's archived in the @dri.ie can now be accessed through the interactive webmap on our website: buff.ly/SMHhq01 You can see where we worked and find out what we did

All welcome to a talk on the results of our project on the Archaeology of the War of Independence and Civil War in East Limerick, Kilmallock Library, 6.30pm, Tuesday 25th November! @researchireland.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social, @heritagecouncil.ie, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

The full schedule for the upcoming Bronze Age Forum (Dublin 14-16 November), including paper abstracts and speaker biographies, is now available on the BAF website: bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

A year ago I was invited to Dublin for the 7th National mons.bsky.social Service Annual Archaeology Conference to give a talk on my work. All those intriguing and compelling talks are now available in this volume: TRACES, the archaeology of small things' Available from @wordwellbooks.bsky.social

⏳Closing date Friday 24 October 2025. Following the success of the 2025 Commercial Dive Training Grant Scheme, @nationalmons.bsky.social is offering up to four further grants in 2026 to assist archaeologists gain commercial diving qualifications. #UCHIreland @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social

You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo... Thurs 4 Dec 7.30pm Online Free

The Discovery Programme's latest Ezine is now available to read here: discoveryprogramme.ie/2025/10/06/d... @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Welcoming today's assessment of the built & archaeological heritage sector. #ClimatEireitage We look forward to continuing engagement with @ccacireland.bsky.social and key partners as we seek to strengthen out adaptive capacity to protect our heritage @nbhsireland.bsky.social #HeritageIreland2030