Heritage is a valuable resource that gives us a sense of place and contributes to our well-being. It is also vital for social, environmental and economic reasons.
The Heritage Office celebrates Fingal’s heritage; provides advice and information on heritage issues; develops policies and priorities for the identification, protection, conservation and enhancement of Fingal's heritage; collects and collates heritage data, and promotes and supports heritage awareness & education throughout the county.
The Heritage Office works with other departments within Fingal County Council and the Fingal Heritage Forum to implement the Fingal Heritage Plan 2024-2030. Plean Oidhreachta Fhine Gall 2024-2030
Contact: [email protected] Tel. 01-890 5691
The heritage officer programme is a partnership between the Heritage Council and the Local Authority. Download information on the Heritage Officer Programme here.
Historic Street Elements Audit
Our historic street furniture are often taken for granted. Limestone kerbing is replaced, post boxes updated, pumps removed when no longer in use. However it is these elements that bring character to our streets and roads and reflect our social history.
Blas Fingal's Food Heritage
BLAS, Fingal’s Food Heritage project will explore, record and share traditions, attitudes, beliefs, and practices that surround how we produce and consume food and introduce different food traditions to new audiences.
Fingal Oral Heritage Project
The Fingal Oral Heritage Project aims to raise awareness of the oral recording tradition of memory, oral history, and folklore, in or about the Fingal. The Fingal Audit of Oral Heritage Recordings has recorded the work of many collectors at private individual levels, as well as regionally and nationally, without whom, this memory would be lost. Communities will be introduced to project planning, ethical considerations, interview techniques and potential outputs. The project will also pilot a study of oral history interviews in relation to horticulture, agriculture and fishing in Fingal.
Fingal Heritage Plan 2024-2030
Thank you to all who contributed to the development to the new Fingal Heritage Plan 2024-2030, during the two phases of public consultation. The Fingal Heritage Plan 2024-2030 was approved by the Fingal Heritage Forum and accepted at the December 2023 County Council meeting.
The Community Monuments Fund
The Community Monuments Fund was first established by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage July, 2020, when an allocation of €1.4 million for expenditure on improvements to archaeological monuments was announced. Funding has increased to €7.4 million in 2025.
Digital Heritage Projects
The current circumstances have provided an opportunity to move a number of our heritage projects online. There are pieces of oral history captured on video, drone films, an online exhibition and colouring book pages to download.
Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity). UNESCO
Natural Heritage
Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna, ecosystems and geological structures
Heritage and Communities
Fingal Heritage Office works proactively to support communities and heritage groups to undertake projects, events and local heritage initiatives.
Community Archaeology
Archaeology is about people in the past, and Community is about people in the present. Community archaeology is about connecting people to their past in a unique and collaborative way.
Digging Drumanagh
Drumanagh promontory fort is a nationally important archaeological site and is of international significance in terms of Ireland’s relationship with the Roman world. Digging Drumanagh is the first scientific excavation ever undertaken at the site.
Heritage and Climate Change
The heritage resource is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts.
Heritage and Tourism
From the time of the Vikings Fingal has been recognised as having its own distinctive qualities, from gently undulating hills and an extensive coastline, to a rich agricultural, archaeological and historical heritage.