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Doon Fort
The Heritage Council’s Adopt a Monument Scheme is open for applications until 5pm next Monday, November 13. The scheme is designed to identity a monument in your locality that would benefit from some care and attention and to support a local community group’s efforts to get involved in its management.
It aims to empower communities to become actively involved in the conservation and interpretation of their local archaeological and heritage sites. Eligible monuments can be anything from an archaeological monument, a historic building, a traditional house, a castle, a church, an historic graveyard, a bridge, a landed estate, a mine, a lime kiln, a mill, a battlefield, an example of our built heritage, an aspect of industrial heritage or a cultural landscape feature.
The Adopt a Monument scheme offers opportunities to become actively involved in the conservation and interpretation of heritage sites in your local area, collaborate and work together as a community,
participate in community development, boost regional tourism, business and employment opportunities, develop and understand the story of your locality and keep active and learn new skills; and support to source funding to protect and conserve the monument.
Since the scheme started in 2016, about 25 groups have taken part and adopted a diverse range of monuments, including a walled garden, castles, churches and graveyards, Anglo-Norman earthen fortifications, a 20th-century handball alley, and 19th-century mining buildings have benefitted.
Four archaeological monuments in County Donegal - Doon Fort near Ardara; Kilbarron Castle near Rossnowlagh; Malin Well Old Church near Malin Head and Old Killaghtee Church and Historic Graveyard - are participating in the scheme already.
The Adopt a Monument Scheme is managed by Abarta Heritage on behalf of The Heritage Council and the Adopt a Monument scheme will provide expertise, mentoring, support, and networking to help to preserve and protect the monument for future generations.
Further details and an application form are available on the Heritage Council website:
https://www.heritagecouncil. ie/projects/aam
The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday, November 13.
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