Galway City Building of the Month for March is the former fever hospital, Earl's Island (RPS.3601). Built circa 1822, the fever hospital was a critical piece of public health infrastructure that operated throughout the 19th century.  For more info check out: www.instagram.com/p/DVy8nUeAB7...

Galway City Building of the Month for January is 17 Cross Street Upper, Tigh Neachtain's (RPS.2801). More info here 👇 www.instagram.com/p/DUG4RGxgII...

Class of 2025 roll call! 🙂 Galway City Buildings of the Year for 2025 span from the medieval period to the 20th Century, with a collective age of over 1200 years! With 618 buildings / structures on the Record of Protected Structures there's plenty to choose from!

The 2026 Historic Structures Fund (HSF) is now open for applications / Tá glacadh anois le hiarratais faoi 2026 Chiste na Struchtúr Stairiúil (CSS). www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/hi... www.galwaycity.ie/ga/nuacht/20...

Wonder Wander Walking Trails are being created for Eyre Square & Galway City Core! Which buildings, features & stories would you like to see included in a trail for each area? Join the community drop-in sessions on Thursday 9th October: The Mick Lally Theatre, 11am - 2pm Eyre Square, 4 - 6pm

One of Galway City's architectual gems, St.Nicholas' Collegiate Church, will take centre stage tonight for Culture Night Live. Tune in from 8.00pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player! #CultureNight #CultureNight2025

Only 3 weeks left to make an application for grant funding to the 2026 Built Heritage Investment Scheme. DEADLINE 26 SEPTEMBER 2025 For more info, click on the linktree link in bio or email [email protected] @nbhsireland.bsky.social

In person tickets for Working Back = Moving Forward are now booked out! ...BUT you can still book tickets to join online until the 11 September! To book an online ticket, and for the programme go to www.galwaycity.ie/adaptconserve @nbhsireland.bsky.social

Galway City Building of the Month for August is the former Parkaveara Lock Keeper's House, 12 Dominick Street Upper (RPS.3301). The building was constructed as part of the Eglington Canal project (1848-1852) to serve the Parkaveara Lock which is located a short distance away.

FREE BOOKING OPEN! Discovery Buildings Archaeology is a FREE full day event including expert presentations / site visits with archaeology + conservation practioners in Galway City. Full programme + booking: www.galwaycity.ie/BuildingsArchaeology @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

WORKING BACK = MOVING FORWARD Join leading voices from planning, research, urban design, architecture, & conservation for an all day event on the adaptive reuse & conservation of historic buildings / places. Full programme & FREE in person or online booking: www.galwaycity.ie/adaptconserve

#HeritageWeek in Galway City... Archaeological Tour of Menlo Castle. Sat, 23 August, 11am-12:30pm. No booking required. Meet at the gate of avenue leading to Menlo Castle. Join Archaeologist, Martin Fitzpatrick for an archaeological walking tour of Menlo Castle & the ongoing conservation works.

Thanks to the folks who came out for this evening's built heritage ramble around the west of Galway City. A fine evening for it 🙂 #HeritageWeek #HeritageWeek2025

#HeritageWeek in Galway City / Join Galway City Council's Architectural Conservation Officer with @galwaycycling.bsky.social for a cycle through Galway City’s past + present. Booking now open: www.galwaycity.ie/heritageweek Length of route: Approx. 6km; Booking required.

The 2026 Historic Thatched Buildings (BHIS-HTB) scheme, part of the Built Heritage Investment Scheme, is now open for grant applications for works in Galway City to: Any historic thatched structure, including domestic or commercial properties. More info: www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/20...

The 2026 Built Heritage Investment Scheme is open for grant applications for works to: - Protected Structures. - Structures in Architectural Conservation Areas. - Vernacular Buildings. - Historic Shopfronts. For more info go to: www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/20... @nbhsireland.bsky.social

#HandsOnTrad - Last Saturday was a really special day at Fahy's Farm / Feirm Úi Fhathaigh in Galway City. This was the first traditional building skills event to be held there, and hopefully this is just the beginning of nudging this beautiful vernacular farm complex awake. 1/5

Something to lift the heart! 💚 Our chain gang (sorry traditional building skills participants! 😄) hard at work removing cement render from one of the traditional buildings at Fahy's Farm, Galway City. Funded by @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social Architectural Conservation & @nbhsireland.bsky.social

Final prep for tomorrow's Traditional Building Skills Training Day at Fahy's Farm in Galway City. Special Coordinator 🐶🫡 checking the softness of seating for participants! @nbhsireland.bsky.social

✨PUBLIC CONSULTATION OPEN✨ @nationalmons.bsky.social and NBHS are preparing a Built and Archaeological Heritage Sectoral Adaptation Plan📑 Closing date 📅5pm 29 July 2025. Details 👉 bit.ly/4lWoUOC @depthousingirl.bsky.social @deptcee.bsky.social

In the Summer of 1945, architecture students from UCD set out to Menlough village in Galway City to undertake a Material Culture Survey of the cottages, their setting, interiors, & materials. The Material Culture Survey of Menlough Village is archived at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Country Life.

Family home of Nora Barnacle, who was married to James Joyce, recognised as Galway City's Building of the Month. www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...

Many thanks for all of the interest in the Traditional Building Skills Training Day at Fahy's Farm, Galway City. Booking is now closed for this event. @nbhsireland.bsky.social #Conservation #GalwayCity

Happy Bloomsday! Galway City Building of the Month for June is Nora Barnacle's home house, No.8 Bowling Green (RPS.1301). Nora was married to James Joyce, who often visited this little house. 1/5

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for the €200,000 2025 Shopfront Enhancement Scheme for eligible businesses in the Eyre Square, City Core, & Lwr Dominick Street Architectural Conservation Areas. ---- DEADLINE: Friday 11 July 2025. More info can be found here: www.GalwayCity.ie/Shopfront

Built Heritage Investment in Action / Reinstatement of historically accurate tri-partite timber sliding sash windows at No.18 William St, Galway City. Works are grant assisted under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme by @nbhsireland.bsky.social & administered by @conservationgalway.bsky.social

#HandsOnTrad - Want to learn about traditional buildings & gain hands on training for their repair & maintenance? Then we have just the event for you! @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social with @nbhsireland.bsky.social, will host a FREE traditional building skills training day on 19 July 2025. 1/4

Galway City Building of the Month for May is Swan House (RPS. 4201); sitting with a quiet heftiness on the corner of Flood Street & Spanish Parade for over 400 years, it is one of the best surviving late medieval houses in the city. 1/3

A grand afternoon for inspections 🫠😎 Galway looking 👌 @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social @galwaytourism.bsky.social @nbhsireland.bsky.social

Delighted to have received funding from @heritagecouncil.ie & have appointed consultants to undertake a Vernacular Heritage Survey of Baile an Dúlaigh. The survey will be undertaken by Deirdre McDermott & Áine Doyle, who have a wide experience & understanding of recording vernacular heritage.

Cuir do chomhairliúchán SAOR IN AISCE in áirithe le hailtire RIAI Grád 2! Tuilleadh eolais anseo 👇 www.galwaycity.ie/ga/nuacht/2025/clinic-caomhantais-chathair-na-gaillimhe

Not Galway 😎... ....but a great example of urban repair of a historic streetscape on Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin by Grafton Architects.

Galway City Council is inviting local businesses & stakeholders to a special 'drop-in' event & walkabout as part of the development of the THRIVE Integrated Urban Strategy for the West Area of Galway City Centre. Tues 29 April 2025 3-5pm(5-5:45pm walk about). Conradh na Gaeilge. 45 Dominick Street.

Book a FREE consultation with an RIAI Grade 2 architect! @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social & @nbhsireland.bsky.social are hosting a Conservation Clinic for owners & occupiers of buildings in Galway's Architectural Conservation Areas. More info/book your FREE place: www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/ga...

It's a happy #WorldHeritageDay in Galway City with €130,000 funding awarded to Menlo Castle under the Community Monuments Fund. 🙂 Conservation works have been ongoing over the last number of years via the continued support of the Community Monuments Fund and @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social.

Galway City Building of the Month is Dermot's Cottage in Menlo. One of Galway City's smallest Protected Structures, & probably one of the smallest thatched houses in Ireland (open to contenders!) This little beauty boasts 3 windows, 2 rooms, & 1 door. @nbhsireland.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

An evening to take in how beautifully our vernacular heritage lives in its landscape. We're lucky to have such a rich built heritage in Galway City, from medieval castles to humble haysheds they all have their own character and value. @nbhsireland.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

The hulking edifice of Menlo Castle in Galway City. Built over a period of 350 years from the 1550s, it was destroyed in a fire in 1910. Conservation works have been ongoing over the last number of years via the Community Monuments Fund + @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social. @nationalmons.bsky.social

✅📊#ClimatEireitage survey open to all until 30 April. Will be used to help inform the development of Ireland’s second Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan (CCSAP) for the Built & Archaeological Heritage (2025-2030) forms.office.com/e/b2jikBYqsm #ClimateActionNow

Mapping an Cladach - #Galway's lost urban, thatched, fishing settlement. Claddagh born Michael Conneely showed the importance of local historians in capturing a place before it is lost forever. 15th Galway City Heritage Conference, funded by @galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social & @heritagecouncil.ie

What's up these stairs?....only the finest view in #Galway City 😍 With a history stretching back over 700 years, St.Nicholas Collegiate Church is a treasure of the City. #HiddenGalway #GalwayArchitecture #GalwayHeritage @nbhsireland.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social @galwaytourism.bsky.social

The All-Ireland Heritage Skills Programme aims to address the shortage of traditional heritage skills by helping to train the next generation of skilled craftspeople. Applications are now open. Webinar: Tues March 25 (7–8PM) Details on the programme & how to join the webinar: ow.ly/lmrs50VkNgB