Kilkenny County Council Heritage Office provides a strategic heritage service including: providing advice and information on heritage issues; developing policies and priorities for the identification, protection, conservation and enhancement of Kilkenny’s Heritage; collecting and collating heritage data and promoting heritage awareness and education. Key objectives include working with the Kilkenny Heritage Forum to prepare and implement the County Heritage Plan and County Biodiversity Plan, and co-ordinating and implementing the Kilkenny Creative Ireland programme.
The following are the key outputs and achievements from 2018:
New County Cultural Strategy launched
Talbots Tower & Kilkenny City Walls brochure launched
Heritage Week 2018
Biodiversity workshops @ Fairytale Festival
Kilkenny Oral Heritage Audit – 1299 recordings identified
Supporting Gold medal for Inistioge (Entente Florale)
Kilkenny Field Names Project
New Kilkenny City Archaeological Database
Creative Ireland Kilkenny Cultural & Creativity Strategy
National Biodiversity Action Plan Grant
Citizen Science Project
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