@antaisce.bsky.social Mary Anthony has arrived in Dublin to support An Taisce with the Historic Properties Redevelopment Project! Follow along to see the story unfold! #friendsofantaisce #antaisce #irishheriatge #buildingsatriskregister

Celebrating National Tree Day

Trees are an indispensable part of our landscape: important for essential ecological services — from carbon sequestration to supporting biodiversity and are a primary source of the oxygen we breathe

Plant trees to build a better future

#NationalTreeDay
#TreeDay2025

RIP Dr Jane Goodall

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make."

'Treading lightly on the earth'

Talk from Éanna Ní Lamhna — educator, author & biologist, exploring our vital relationship with nature

Thursday 23 October at 7.30pm in Tailors' Hall — D08 X2A3

Book your place now:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/talk-tread...

#naturalheritage
#restorenature
#ecosystems

Dublin City Council failing to register derelict sites

An Taisce urges DCC to place three of the city’s most prominent vacant properties on the Derelict Sites Register, including a site on O’Connell Street that's been derelict since the late 1970s
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Join Clean Coasts for the #BigBeachClean25

Sign up today to receive all you need to host your own beach clean and join a worldwide citizen science project
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#CleanCoasts #InternationalCoastalCleanUp
@cleancoasts.bsky.social

The extraordinary Wonderful Barn at Castletown House estate, Co Kildare

Built as a grain store in 1743, it consists of 5 diminishing brick-domed rooms. A corkscrew staircase encircles the barn

Kildare CoCo currently carrying out conservation works

#BuiltHeritage
#IrishFollies
#KildareHeritage

Check out our website and sign up for put newsletter to get updates on our important heritage work! #antaisce #friendsofantaisce #irishheritage #saveirishheritage #saveirishhistory

An Taisce is running special tours of its restored historic headquarters for National Heritage Week in Ireland. www.antaisce.org/history
#2025heritageweek #heritageweek #AnTaisce #FriendsofAnTaisce #saveirishheritage #irisharchitecturalhistory

National Heritage Week is coming soon...

An Taisce, along with our programmes & local association groups are delighted to have some great events taking place across the country

For more information, go to www.antaisce.org/Pages/Events/
or
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

#heritageweek2025

1772 Foundation Advisor and Friends of An Taisce Advisory Board member Mary Anthony arrives in Dublin, September 2025, for a one-year secondment working with An Taisce to grow their historic properties redevelopment program. #saveirishheritage #antaisce www.friendsofantaisce.org/blog/takingt...

#HeritageAtRisk
County Offaly

1. Clara
Mill complex of c.1800. Has suffered fire damage, with main mill bdg now derelict. With suitable investment it could deliver uses for the town, eg. entrepreneur co-labs / other creative purposes within mixed commercial-residential development.

#HeritageAtRisk
Co Offaly

4. Horseleap
Well proportioned and symmetrical farmhouse of the Georgian period at this small village on the old Dublin-Galway road. Vacant many years with windows and fanlight boarded.

#HeritageAtRisk
Co Offaly

3. Tullamore
The Mallet Tavern, the only remaining thatched building in Tullamore. Having closed as a pub in the early 2020s, planning permission was later granted for its residential conversion, and some preparatory work has begun on this, including rethatching roof.

#HeritageAtRisk
Co Offaly

2. Edenderry
Substantial Georgian house on the main street, opposite O'Connell Square. Recently for sale.

An Taisce will be taking part in National Heritage Week on the 16-24 August!
Ireland's National Heritage Week celebrates the built and natural heritage of Irish culture.
Check out the events An Taisce will be offering for important opportunities: www.antaisce.org/Pages/Events/

Did you know that there is an International Bog Day?
Bogs are a hugely important ecosystem and are ecologically and culturally significant places in Ireland. Amazing work is being done across the country to regenerate, rewet and rehabilitate these areas. Save the Fourth Sunday of July every year!

Nitrates pollution & Ireland's derogation:

"To date, successive governments have utterly failed to engage properly with the farmers ... we can't continue to put our heads in the sand as water quality declines and farmers' businesses are hanging in the balance"

#WaterQuality
#NitratesPollution

The gutting of nature from the Infrastructure, Climate & Nature Fund to finance transport, energy & water infrastructure projects in the NDP is very alarming, deeply disappointing & flies in the face of the Government’s previous guarantees on nature restoration environmentalpillar.ie/environmenta...

World Nature Conservation Day is celebrated annually on July 28th. It's a day dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of protecting natural resources and ecosystems.