Advice for Monuments on Your Land

Farmers are the day to day managers of our landscape and are the private landowners of the majority of archaeological sites. Ancient monuments are protected by the National Monuments Act 1930 – 2004 legislation.

In response to this the Heritage Council in partnership with Meath County Council, established the Field Monument Advisor Scheme in the county. Rosanne Meenan was employed as Field Monuments Advisor for County Meath from 2006 to 2009.

Please see below for information leaflets published by the Heritage Council

Farming and Archaeology: The Irish historic landscape (PDF, 765.23 kb)

Ireland's Farming Heritage (PDF, 1.01 mb)

High nature value farmland in Ireland (PDF, 888.72 kb)