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Conservation Areas
The Planning (NI) Order 1991 (Article 50) provides for the designation of an area of special architectural or historic interest as a Conservation Area. Northern Ireland currently contains 58 Conservation Areas- yet many people are unaware of their ex...more
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Historic & Traditional Buildings
Grand Houses of Mourne
CastlesFollowing the Anglo Norman invasion of Ulster in 1177, castles were built to keep the peace. The dramatic stone castles of Dundrum and Greencastle (pictured) and the prominent motte and bailey at Clough demonstrate...more
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Historic Monuments
Historic Monuments are unique surviving relics of our historic environment, extending back for 9000 years. There are over 350 monuments in Mourne dating from different periods. Archaeological artefacts date from the Mesolith...more
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Mourne Homesteads
The Mourne Homesteads Project is an innovative scheme established by Mourne Heritage Trust in Spring 2000 to seek ways of addressing the loss of traditional buildings in the countryside. It has 2 strands the renovation of 7 vacant traditional dw...more
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Traditional Buildings in Ireland Home Owners Handbook
Friday 15th April 2005 saw the launch of the new Mourne Heritage Trust publication “Traditional Buildings in Ireland: Home Owners Handbook”. The book is a long held ambition by the Trust which has been involved in a building restoration scheme f...more
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Traditional Materials
Thatch is the use of vegetable matter to cover a roof and was the most common roof covering until well into the nineteenth century. As with every traditional material, what was first used was whatever there was to hand. Recent excavati...more
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