Landscape Identification and Assessment in Ireland: an overview

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1 Landscape Identification and Assessment in Ireland: an overview Nessa Roche Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Custom House, Dublin 1, Ireland

2 Heritage Council 2013: Historic Landscape Characterisation

3 Final Report Landscape Character Assessment of County Clare ERM Ireland March 2004

4 ape Character County Clare Landscape Character Assessment 2004

5 ric Landscape Characterisation 2013

ndscape Character Assessment in Ireland: Baseline Audit and Evaluation p.

Each has its own individual character and identity, even though it shares the same generic

This distinction is reflected in the naming of types and areas: landscape character types have generic

6 ndscape Character Assessment in Ireland: Baseline Audit and Evaluation p.12 Landscape character areas are unique, geographically specific areas of a particular landscape type. Each has its own individual character and identity, even though it shares the same generic characteristics with other areas of the same type. This distinction is reflected in the naming of types and areas: landscape character types have generic names, but landscape character areas take on the names of specific places. Examples might be the south Wicklow Uplands or The Burren. 1 The Burren 2 Innishmurry 4 Wicklow Uplands 3 Shannon Waterway

7 Landscape Character Assessment in Ireland: Baseline Audit and Evaluation Mapping generally schematic National GIS datasets not sufficiently used HLC seldom incorporated into the assessment process Few LCAs included stakeholder consultation Principal variations in landscape character insufficiently considered Considerable variation in content and length No systematic consideration of forces affecting landscape Significant variation in presentation of judgements about landscape change Distinction between characterisation and judgements unclear Inconsistency in classification across county boundaries in many cases Insufficient or no consideration given to seascape and townscape

9 DRAFT TARA SKRYNE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION AREA EXPLANATORY DOCUMENT

10 Tara Skryne Landscape Project website:

11 ata Water and soil layers

12 al map of Ireland, produced by logical Survey of Ireland and the Institute, is a bathymetric survey esignated Irish continental shelf INFOMAR survey

13 Myplan.ie spatial planning searchable database

15 Pilot habitat map 2009

16 ational Biodiversity Data Centre:

17 Hillshade DSM generated from first return LiDAR data for Bru na Boinne Discovery Programme LiDAR mapping Perspective view of the hillshade DSM of Skellig Michael

18 onal ntory of itectural tage buildingsofireland.ie data fication of 6,000 sites

19 Trinity College Dublin: Down Survey maps

20 SECTION SIX VISION, PROPOSED POLICY AND ACTIONS Waterways Corridor Study 2006 A study of the area surrounding the Lower Shannon navigation including Lough Derg, from Meelick, Co Galway to Limerick City

22 Bere Island Conservation Plan 2002

23 Tellus Border geo environmental mapping project

24 GeoUrban Dublin Project

25 Royal Irish Academy: Historic Towns Atlas project

26 Burrenbeo Trust and farming community initiatives e to Farming servation Burren life Best practice guide no. 1 The Agricultural Heritage of the Burren BURRENLIFE BEST PRACTICE GUIDE No. 2

27 Copper Coast Geopark County Waterford al objective: ATLANTERRA, fuelled by the GREEN MINES project experience anced by the INTERREG IIIB Espace Atlantique program), aims for the vation, the promotion and the transnational structuring of the mining ony in the Espace Atlantique. ain results: oject will allow the formation of new preservation tools and the promotion ing patrimony: the guide to good practice for becoming a mining heritage venture tracks, geoparks, digital mining archives, artistic creation, tions, a European symposium, a shared internet portal, exhibitions, and f mining patrimony

28 ank you for listening.

Landscape Policy in Ireland insights from the Heritage Council

Landscape Policy in Ireland insights from the Heritage Council Ian Doyle Head of Conservation What am I going to talk about? What is landscape? European Landscape Convention Local landscape projects Methods