Foilseacháin

The ground beetle Harpalus honestus (Duftschmid, 1812) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was collected from Skellig Michael in 2023 and 2024, Co. Kerry, the first Irish records. The beetle is a thermophilous, xerophilous species of fast-draining or dry habitats. Evidence is adduced to demonstrate its preference for montane situations and its southern temperate European distribution. It is suggested the species is a post-glacial relict whose narrow environmental preferences limit its distribution in Ireland.

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.

This report, dated December 2024, tracks the progress of implementing the action programme of the Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property Management Plan 2020–30.

This report, dated December 2024, tracks the progress of implementing the action plan of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Property Management Plan 2017–27.

The archaeological review for the 2024 season provides an overview of works that necessitated archaeological oversight only and the nature of that oversight/monitoring on the World Heritage Property of Sceilg Mhichíl.

Skellig Michael was visited on a number of occasions through the summers of 2023 and 2024 with the object of surveying spiders and other invertebrates on the island. This summary report details some of the results so far obtained, offering a list of the spiders including numbers of specimens seen.

The Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report outlines the repair works completed on the World Heritage Property in 2024.

Note: Appendix I refers to an internal report and so has not been uploaded.

This report, commissioned by the National Monuments Service presents a comprehensive analysis of the high-resolution photographic and video recordings of the solar illumination inside the burial chamber at Newgrange passage tomb, located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne.

Please find attached a report by NPWS describing seabird survey work between 2020 and 2023.

This is the Final Report for a rescue excavation commissioned by the National Monuments Service in 2023 on an area of ground at the Upper Lighthouse on Sceilg Mhichíl that is the subject of erosion from increased storminess and precipitation.