Publications

The Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2025-2035 is Ireland’s first national strategy to support the implementation of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. The Strategy will foster a more integrated, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approach to World Heritage protection and management both nationally and locally and it will enhance local stakeholder engagement, participation, and communication in the management of the existing and future World Heritage Properties and Tentative List sites.

‘A Guide to World Heritage Nomination’ has been developed by the National Monuments Service with international best practice in mind. This guide aims to assist local authorities that are working to progress the nomination of sites on Ireland’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.

The publication is the first in a new World Heritage Advice Series to assist members of the public and key stakeholders in understanding the various World Heritage processes and requirements within an Irish context.

This report provides the methodology for the extraction and distillation of the attributes of the World Heritage Properties of Brú na Bóinne and Sceilg Mhichíl from their Statements of Outstanding Universal Value in the context of UNESCO’s Third Cycle Periodic Reporting for Europe and North America.

The World Heritage Tentative List Technical Evaluation sets out how each Tentative List application was evaluated and outlines the basis for inclusion in Ireland’s new (2022) World Heritage Tentative List.