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Almost € 95,000 announced for Offaly's built heritage Reporter: ');  '); 24 projects across Offaly received a total of € 94,800 under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme 2021. The BHIS is one of two built heritage funding schemes run by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in association with 31 local authorities.  Through grants of up to €15,000, the BHIS assists owners of heritage structures – including those on the local authorities’ Record of Protected Structures and those in Architectural Conservation Areas – to meet their obligations to care for thei...

Go ahead given to turn historic hall in Tullamore into restaurant Reporter: ');  '); The go ahead has been given to turn part of an historic hall in Tullamore into a restaurant. A planning application was lodged with Offaly County Council to change the ground floor recreation hall of the Irish National Foresters Hall on Church Street in the town into 'an authentic Asian restaurant and take away'. Sunitta Thongsong applied for permission for the development which will consist of the change of use of the existing ground floor area. The first floor of the building and storerooms at the rear of...

Conservation cash approved for precious heritage buildings in Laois Funding announced for conservation of Laois historic buildings Reporter: '); Funding has been confirmed for the conservation of small thatched houses to larger country houses. Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan, on Thursday, April announced that 477 heritage projects across every county in the country will benefit from a total of €3m under this year’s Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS) Laois County Council's Laois Heritage Officer confirmed that of this fund, €72,000 has been alloc...

The Poolbeg chimneys in Dublin may be encased in fibreglass or concrete to prevent structural issues in the future, according to Dublin City Council.

Donegal County Council's award-winning Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has opened for applications. Now in its third year, the scheme assists the owners and occupiers of thatched dwellings and businesses with their maintenance and repair. Donegal is home to one of the largest surviving concentrations of thatch structures in Ireland with over 20 thatched buildings on the Record of Protected Structures for the county but it's thought that there many more eligible for inclusion. Since its introduction in 2019, the Thatch Repair Grant Scheme has supported 38 thatch repair projects in the county. The g...