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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...
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Course Dates

In 2005 Mourne Heritage Trust will be running a number of traditional skills courses funded by the Rural Down Partnership under the Leader+ Programme. All courses are free and are accredited by Mourne Heritage Trust. The target grou...

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Historic & Traditional Buildings

Grand Houses of Mourne

Castles
Following 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 prom...

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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 Mesol...

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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...

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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 schem...

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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. Re...
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