What a fantastic turnout for this year's #HeritageWeek2025 marathon batathon!

Six counties, six lesser horseshoe bat events, one fab #HeritageWeek2025 journey where 140 people joined Kate McAney along the way. Most saw + heard #lesserhorseshoebats for the first time! Huge thanks to NPWS, local biodiversity officers, The Heritage Council and all who came out to celebrate bats!

#HeritageWeek2025 was a great success!

Highlights included our Make Your Own Tile workshop, International Language Day guided tours, and Crypt to Crypt tours. Special thanks to Olive and Beatrice from St Michan's Church for opening up and providing a warm welcome to visitors.

Our sixth and final stop on the lesser horseshoe #bat tour was Glengarriff. Lots of activity from soprano & common pipistrelles, including a territorial male common pip, patrolling the river!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined, NPWS ranger Mary Coleman, and VWT staff from Wales.
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Stop five of our lesser horseshoe #bat tour took us to Killarney’s Fossa Way. We didn’t just see and hear horseshoe bats, five other species showed up too!

Big thanks to everyone who came along and supported the event, including VWT staff visiting from Wales!

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Stop 4 of our lesser horseshoe #Bat tour drew a fantastic crowd at Curraghchase!
We had amazing Leisler’s activity before the horseshoes showed up, plus pips & Daubenton’s along the lake edge.

Huge thanks to all who joined and to Limerick Biodiversity Officer for the support!

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Stop three on our lesser horseshoe #bat tour brought us to the beautiful Dromore Woods. We were treated to wonderful encounters with horseshoe bats, lively soprano pipistrelles, and Daubenton’s skimming the water at dusk. Huge thanks again to NPWS staff and all who joined us!

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Have a lovely weekend everyone! #bookfacefriday #Summerstars #heritageweek2025 🤩📚

Yesterday at the TII #HeritageWeek2025 seminar, 4 of AMS's own archaeologists presented talks about different topics on archaeology & the discoveries from the #FoynestoLimerickRoadProject. Kudos to Bryn Coldrick, Liamóg Roche, Seán Tiffin, & John Channing for some very interesting presentations!

A wonderful turnout for the site visits to Rincullia 8 on 20/08 for #HeritageWeek2025! Visitors got to experience what happens on an excavation & see some artefacts up close. A huge thanks to TII, LCCC, & the fantastic AMS site & post-ex team for a great day! #foynestolimerickroad #foynestolimerick

It's been a great #HeritageWeek2025 down in #Foynes! 33 members of the public attended a presentation & tour of Pillboxes at Mulderricksfield on 19/08. What a fantastic turnout! A huge thanks to Tom Cassidy, to TII, & LCCC for the event! #heritageweek #colimerick #archaeology #pillboxes #wwi #wwii

A massive thank you to everyone who made the Rossmore Community Heritage Day a roaring success! The stories, maps, and chats were pure magic.
So much local history was shared and preserved.
#CommunityHeritage #LocalHistory #HeritageWeek2025 #ThankYou

Sheela na gig carving at Blackhall Castle, Calverstown, Co. Kildare.
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AMS's own built heritage specialist Ciara Flynn helped give a fantastic presentation about the conservation of the church tower of St Patrick's Church in Newport, Mayo. Thanks to the St Patrick's Church Newport Conservation Management Plan team for putting on a great event for #HeritageWeek2025!

The Hellfire Club on Montpelier Hill is a fascinating cornerstone of Dublin’s layered heritage. Its significance spans archaeology, architecture, folklore, and social history. #heritageweek2025 #ThrowbackThursday

Ready..set..go! all organised for our community heritage day in the lovely Rossmore Community Center
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Do join @vwtireland.bsky.social for a bat walk #HeritageWeek2025

In celebration of #HeritageWeek2025 an excavation is currently underway in Carlow College St. Patrick's: hopefully the findings will be as illuminating as those from Rathgall Hillfort outside Tullow, in the summer of 1969:
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A wonderful day out in Kilrush! For #HeritageWeek2025, we set up outside Banner Books to show visitors how our ancestors made pots & give them a chance to make a clay pot of their own. Lots of smiles and lovely pots! #kilrush #westclare #localevents #whatsonkilrush #archaeology #irisharchaeology

#StPatricksCathedralDublin & Marsh's Library were delighted to welcome a group of #HeritageWeek2025 visitors for our first #Huguenot tour today. We ended with a look at our first librarian Élie Bouhéreau's diary and accounts, with the page recording his wife's death.

Stop two on our lesser horseshoe #bat tour: the stunning oak woodlands of Garryland. Huge thanks to participants, NPWS staff, horseshoe bats & pips for joining us!

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Thanks to Pat Bracken for an entertaining talk and also to everyone who came along last night.
It's incredible how many sports were being played here in the 19th Century.
Learning something new during #HeritageWeek2025

As part of #heritageweek2025, @peatlandslife.bsky.social, along with BnM and the Ballyforan Area Transition Team (BATT), is hosting a guided ecology and heritage walk on the Ballyforan Bog, Co. Roscommon this Saturday, August 23rd 2025. Learn more and register: peatlandsandpeople.ie/news/guided-...

A great turnout for the #FingalCoastalZoneProject guided walk by AMS maritime archaeologists Dan Atkinson & Conn Herriott. Particpants were introduced to recording techniques & some of the key features of the vessel remains to help establish the possible size/age of the wrecks. #heritageweek2025

A fantastic night out in Kilkee w/ Dr James Bonsall & team! A great turnout for a very interesting introduction to how digital tools can help communities protect their vulnerable heritage. #heritageweek #heritageweek2025 #kilkee #loophead #visitloophead #westclare #culturalheritage

Thanks to the folks who came out for this evening's built heritage ramble around the west of Galway City. A fine evening for it 🙂

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Great workshop on creating 3D images to record all the information on old Gravestones from Caimin O'Brien this Morning.
Thank you to everyone who came along to explore this technique and to Caimin for sharing his wealth of knowledge.
#HeritageWeek2025 #Photography #Gravestones

A big thank you to all who joined the first of 6 sold-out lesser horseshoe bat walks this #HeritageWeek2025. The horseshoe bats and lots of soprano pipistrelles put on a great display for us just after sunset. Thanks to Brian Hughes, NPWS Conservation Ranger, for his knowledge and support.

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