Heritage Projects

Implementing the County Heritage Plan involves delivery of key Heritage Projects from 2006-2010 along with raising awareness of the heritage resource in the county and promotion of heritage needs through the policies and work programmes of all the agencies represented on the County Heritage Forum.

Heritage projects completed to date include the following:

• Wetland Survey
• Thatch Survey
• Upland Fire Management Seminar
• Lime Mortar training
• 2006 Comeragh Mountains Calendar
• Photography  competition
• Local History course
• Archaeology Seminar
• Tramore Dunes Study (UCC)
• Industrial Heritage Survey
• Burial Ground Survey/Archive Search
• Golden Mile Competition
• Village Design Statement for Tallow
• Tramore Lecture Series
• Tramore Dunes Works
• Scoping Study for Tramore Bay Coastal Zone Management
• Survey of Bats in Bridges
• Guidance Booklet on the Care, Conservation and Recording of Graveyards in Co. Waterford.
• Seminar on Care and Conservation of Graveyards
• Tree Survey
• Habitat Map of County Waterford

The Heritage Plan work programme for 2010 includes the following projects;

• Comeragh Mountains Project
• Heritage Signage in Portlaw
• Seminar on Demesne landscapes in County Waterford