This week we held our Annual General Meeting. The day included a series of updates from staff on our activities - a good moment to take stock of how much has been achieved over the past year @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

To mark Ash Wednesday, here is another of our 3D models from the Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny - the figure of an archbishop with his hand raised in a Benediction. The panel was originally built into the wall by the entrance to St Mary’s Church alongside several other carvings skfb.ly/pGBTV

We are delighted to share that our project 'Finding Flemingstown' has been awarded one of the eight @castlestudies.bsky.social grants We will use geophysical survey to locate & map the lost 13th century Flemingstown of Kilkenny Castle @opwireland.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

Happy Valentine's Day! 💘 “Until Death do us part…” this monument depicts William Goer & his wife Margaret & dates to the 14th century. The pair lie with their hands reaching towards each other We digitally recorded it as part of a collaboration with the Medieval Mile Museum, Kilkenny skfb.ly/pGvNp

The 3rd community workshop for "Tara by Name, Tara by Nature?" is coming up! WHERE: Mullingar Library WHEN: Thurs 5th March @ 6pm ☕️All welcome to come along, have a cuppa & share folklore, myths & legends you may know about Tevrin townland A @researchireland.ie-funded project with Abarta Heritage

Happy @unesco.org International Day of Women & Girls in Science! #IDWGS2026 To celebrate, we're sharing a blog by our Heritage Visualiser Siva Namberi on her recent experience at the #3D4CH Winter School: discoveryprogramme.ie/2026/02/11/i... #WomeninScience @timemachine.eu @europeana.bsky.social

It’s Love Data Week! #LoveData26 If you love data as much as we do, find our collections in the @dri.ie & @europeana.bsky.social: ⛏️ The Irish Stone Axe Project: doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... 🌊The CHERISH Project: doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... 💻 5Dculture: tinyurl.com/y7nwhyab @ria.ie @ucddublin.bsky.social

You can now read our latest Ezine here: discoveryprogramme.ie/2026/02/04/d... 🍀 New project: Tara by Name, Tara by Nature? 🌎 New tool: CHERISH web map 📖 Reconstructing the Lough Kinale Shrine ✈️AARG conference 💻Paradata in 3D Scholarship 🦺 Survey at St John's Point 🖊️ New paper: Woodstown Viking Site

Happy St Brigid's Day! St Brigid is one of the 3 Patron saints of Ireland & is venerated across the world This week we found streets & sisters named after her in Spain, where we're collaborating with EU partners on the AGREE Project, exploring maritime heritage in Spain, Portugal, France & Ireland

We are in Huelva, Spain for the initial meeting of the AGREE Project. This EU-funded project will run until 2028 and see the Discovery Programme working with partners in Spain, Portugal and France to explore maritime heritage

It's Day 2 of the 3D-4CH Winter School The Discovery Programme are partners in this project, working to create an online competence centre for digital cultural heritage Siva Namberi, our Digital Documentation Visualisation Officer, is in attendance today✨ @timemachine.eu @europeana.bsky.social

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

We are delighted to announce a new collection – RIA Standing Committee for Archaeology – has been published in the Repository by @ria.ie. The collection offers a comprehensive and critical assessment of the discipline of archaeology on the island of Ireland. ➡️ Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

Fantastic to see this paper published - Discovery Programme continues to collaborate with Abarta Heritage on Woodstown Viking Site Geophysical survey is a great way to investigate archaeological sites without disturbing the remains. These results show how useful & important the findings can be!

NEXT WEEK! Our Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next Thursday, 4th December, 7.30pm "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social FREE, online, everyone welcome Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

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

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

Excited to be part of this project with @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social!

Announcing the 1st workshop of the 'Tara by Name, Tara by Nature' @researchireland.ie-funded project with Abarta Heritage! Where: Portaferry Recreation Hub, Co. Down When: Tuesday 18 Nov 7pm All welcome! The workshop will explore evidence linking places in Ards Peninsula to Hill of Tara, Co. Meath

💻 Happy #WorldDigitalPreservationDay! The @nlireland.bsky.social keeps safe our country’s cultural heritage by preserving born-digital and digitised collections. Learn more: www.nli.ie/collections/...

Thrilled to welcome our European colleagues to Vienna! ☎️ After an inspiring #CHNT conference, our TMO team, as lead partner of #3DBigDataSpace, hosted the 2nd consortium meeting. With a view over the city, we reflected on results and planned next steps. Stay tuned!

The Discovery Programme's Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next month, on Thursday 4th December "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social FREE, online, everyone welcome. Sign up via Eventbrite:

The nights are drawing in, the leaves are turning brown - Samhain night is upon us... Happy Samhain from The Discovery Programme

Yes, the fab @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social have scanned it, available here on Sketchfab: sketchfab.com/3d-models/ke... Doesn't help to decipher the iconography of this particular scene though.

🌍 Help Shape the Future of 3D Cultural Heritage in Europe! ❔How does your institution manage, store, and share 3D data? Take this 10-min survey to share your needs & challenges and help design sustainable, useful, and cost-effective 3D services for Europe’s heritage community! 👉 shorturl.at/t6Neh

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

Do you work in archaeology, heritage, data science or a related discipline? Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology wants to understand how professionals in these fields perceive & use AI technologies The survey is anonymous & takes 10-15 mins docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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

Spot the archaeologists! This week we've been onsite in Co. Donegal doing UAV survey at sites around St John's Point, funded by an @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social grant. Here is a cleared shore, traditionally known as the landing place for the medieval Killaghtee church @edwardpollard.bsky.social

6/6 The Lough Kinale Shrine reconstructed! Ireland’s oldest & largest Book Shrine was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake Now, Discovery Programme has used 3D modelling to digitally reconstruct it with @nmireland.bsky.social for #wordsonthewave exhibition: @heritagecouncil.ie

📢 Announcing a new @researchireland.ie-funded project exploring Tara places in Ireland 'Tara by Name, Tara by Nature?' will explore archaeological connections between Ireland’s 'temair' places It will be led by The Discovery Programme's Dr Susan Curran @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

Our Research Archaeologist Dr Susan Curran is currently in Trondheim, Norway at the @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social (AARG) conference. Dr Curran is the Honorary Secretary for AARG and presenting a poster from the Discovery Programme on Remote Sensing data

5/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken in medieval times & the pieces left in a lake... We've now digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til post #6 18/09 for full shrine skfb.ly/pAIXp skfb.ly/pAIXs

4/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken apart in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow until post #6 18/09 to see the full shrine

3/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow until post #6 18/09 to see the full shrine

2/6 Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was broken apart in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake... Now we've digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til 18/09 for the full shrine 👀

We are thrilled to see CHERISH achieve another significant milestone - with their collections in DRI now totalling more than 20,000 unique objects! Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col... @rcahmwales.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @geolsurvie.bsky.social

📣Discovery Programme is delighted to announce the CHERISH Project Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data is now archived securely in the @dri.ie & available for anyone to use! doi.org/10.7486/DRI.... @heritagecouncil.ie @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @interregeurope.bsky.social

Lough Kinale Shrine is Ireland’s oldest Book Shrine - an elaborate box made to hold a holy book It was destroyed in the medieval period & the broken parts left in a lake... We've now digitally reconstructed it with @nmireland.bsky.social Follow til post #6 18/09 for the full shrine skfb.ly/pAHnB

Thank you everyone who joined our #HeritageWeek Coastal Archaeology walk this weekend despite the wet weather! We had a great time exchanging knowledge about this stretch of coast This was grant-aided by @ria.ie, funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social. @heritagecouncil.ie @edwardpollard.bsky.social

Hut site and cairns in the eroding sand dunes on the Doorin Point survey. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

Eroding shell middens recorded surveying around Doorin Point, Donegal. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

We had a fantastic time at Aonach na nDéise - Woodstown Viking Fest yesterday, chatting to visitors about our geophysical surveys at Woodstown & having fun with our 3D models in VR 🤓 Topped off with a visit from MoS Christopher O'Sullivan TD, MoS Mary Butler TD & Mayor of Waterford Cllr Séamus Ryan

Erosion cut through a stream making a new waterfall with the original now dry valley on the townland boundary seen further south. Doorin Point in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Traces of a cart track running along the intertidal zone was recorded on the Doorin Point survey, Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #Riagrants @ria.ie funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

Checking out the erratics used as land marks, place names, fossils and rock formations on the foreshore around Doorin Point promontory fort in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social #Riagrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

The Discovery Programme is just 30 people away from 10,000 followers on @sketchfab.bsky.social! To celebrate, we’re offering our 10,000th follower a 3D print of the Newgrange Entrance Stone! For your chance to WIN, head over to Sketchfab and follow us there! sketchfab.com/discoverypro... Good luck🍀

The Discovery Programme would like to welcome our new Archaeological Surveyor & Digital Documentation Officer Cian Hogan. Cian joins us with extensive experience from commercial archaeology, primarily working in geophysics. He will be doing geophysical surveys with our Survey Team. Welcome Cian!

3 weeks today until our exhibition opens at Oranmore Public Library for #HeritageWeek2025! Part of the CHERISH exhibition on #coastal #archaeology will be on display Fri 15 Aug - Fri 22 Aug Oranmore Library is open from 10.30-5pm Tues-Sat (closed 1-2pm) @heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social