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Heritage Outlook Summer 2004 3Gb ISSN - 1393 - 9777 SUMMER 2004 MANAGING OUR OCEANS How do we prevent over-exploitation? THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY thinking globally, acting locally ARCHAEOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND Challenges and opportunities COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS • OUR HISTORIC HOMES • PILGRIM PATHS • HERITAGE EVENTS The Heritage Council works to protect and enhance the richness, quality and diversity of our national heritage for everyone. www.heritagecouncil.ie CONTENTS Heritage News 3 FEATURES Managing our Oceans - John Molloy 6 Exploring the Convention on Biological C O M M E N T Diversity - Liam Lysaght 11 Archaeology in Contemporary Ireland - hat is heritage? When most people Ian Doyle 16 hear the word ‘heritage’, they think ‘history’. When asked the question: Freedom to roam? - Eleanor Flegg 18 W ‘What is Heritage?’, many would immediately The Heritage in Schools Scheme - think of man-made dwellings, including castles, Conor Kelleher 21 manors, and thatched cottages. Local heritage is St Kevin's Way - Emer Ní Bhrádaigh 22 often viewed in terms of tangibles such as old buildings or monuments, suggesting man’s New Guidelines on Rural Housing - influence on our surroundings, man’s building Stephen Rhys-Thomas 24 prowess and craftmanship. National heritage is Our Historic Homes - seen as something more abstract, encompassing Dr Hugh Maguire 28 what we share as a nation - our folklore, lan- guage and so on. REGULARS This common understanding of the term Poetry 26 ‘heritage’ as equal to ‘history’ provides a great Gallery: Daragh Muldowney 27 challenge to the Heritage Council. The perception that heritage is historical and man-made is dan- Book reviews 30 gerously confining, as if conserving churches and Crossword 31 castles will suffice to safeguard our heritage. It Event Notice Board 32 won’t. You will see from the articles in this maga- zine that the Council’s brief is more varied than Staff and Officers 35 this. You will also see how our natural environ- ment is a fundamental aspect - the fundamental Produced by Isabell Smyth - The Heritage Council aspect - of our heritage. It is our living heritage. Edited by Juanita Browne, Designed by Ian Barry Protecting our environment, in the face of urban development, increased commercialisation of farming practices and other threats, is a lynchpin in safeguarding our heritage. Heritage is about conserving in order to pass on to future genera- tions. What legacy will be valued more than our birds, our wildlife, our trees, our countryside? Under the National Heritage Act (1995), ‘heritage’ is defined as including the following: Established under the Heritage Act of 1995 monuments; archaeological objects; heritage Heritage Council, Rothe House, objects; architectural heritage; flora and fauna; Parliament St, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny wildlife habitats; landscapes; seascapes and wrecks; Tel: 056-7770777 Fax: 056-7770788 geology; heritage gardens and parks; and inland Email: [email protected] www.heritagecouncil.ie waterways. This broader view of heritage, aside from taking the term out of the historical context, For further contact details see page 35. means we are suddenly all involved. We see pre- serving ancient chalices and monuments as some- HERITAGE COUNCIL MEMBERS: one else’s job, typically that of Government, but Dr Tom O’Dwyer(Chairperson), mention the environment and we know we’re all Dr Simon Berrow, Mary Bryan, Dr Con Costello, responsible. I hope this magazine is a step towards Ruth Delany, Nessa Dunlea, Deirdre Ellis-King, re d ressing a distorted perception of heritage. Maurice Hurley, Michael MacMahon, Heritage isn’t just to be found in museums. It’s Eamonn McEneaney, Michael McNamara, amongst the people, in the silence of the fields and Mary Moylan, Fr Tomás Ó Caoimh, noise of the city streets. Nioclás O’Conchubhair, Prof W J Smyth, Michael Starrett Chief Executive Virginia Teehan, Primrose Wilson. AN CHOMHAIRLE OIDHREACHTA 2 Heritage News The ESB Cooling Towers now demolished at Rhode. Courtesy of the Electricity Supply Board. RHODE COOLING TOWERS out the assessment of the remaining cooling DEMOLISHED towers. The main findings of this study con- With the demolition of the two cooling towers curred with the ESB’s earlier findings and con- at Rhode, Co Offaly, on March 16th, the only cluded that if one tower was to be retained, the remaining tower in the Irish landscape is at cost of repair would be several million euro and Bellacorrick. Seven cooling towers were origi- funding would be required for long-term main- nally built by the ESB, but they have gradually tenance. The cost of insurance would also be been demolished over the past few years. prohibitive. When first built in the 1950s, the towers It had to be reluctantly accepted that caused an outcry, and were described as a resources were not available to invest such large blight on the landscape, only tolerated by the sums into one monument, and that the towers local communities on condition that they would have to come down. ESB have agreed to would be demolished at the end of their consider commissioning a suitable model of designed life span, which was to be 25 years. cooling towers to record their special impact How times have changed! Over the years, the and their operational details. same structures became symbolic of the electri- - Mary Hanna, Architectural Officer, fication of Ireland, and their presence on the the Heritage Council flat landscape of the midlands began to be looked on with great affection. The Heritage HERITAGE STUDIES IN Council became involved with the ESB at the LETTERFRACK time of the demolition of the cooling tower at Instead of bringing students to lecture halls, Portarlington, when there was considerable Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology is bring- public outrage at the loss of this part of our ing lectures out to students. The first to bene- industrial heritage. The loss of more towers was fit from this new learning initiative will be her- Preparing for anticipated, and the Heritage Council asked itage enthusiasts near Letterfrack, about 50 the new founda- the ESB to look at the possibility of keeping at miles from Galway city. tion course in heritage studies, least one tower in the landscape. in Letterfrack, Studies commissioned by the ESB described are, from left, Paul Gosling, the three remaining towers, at Rhode and GMIT lecturer, Bellacorrick, as having come to the end of their Mary useful life. Concrete design in the 1950s was MacCague, Head of less advanced, and in some parts the steel rein- Department in forcement had less than 50% of the required the School of Humanities, concrete cover. With no further use for them, GMIT, and the cost of maintaining the towers was causing Marie Mannion, Heritage Officer considerable anxiety to the ESB. Nevertheless, in Galway the Heritage Council asked the ESB to com- County mission a further independent study to see if at Council. least one cooling tower could be kept as a mon- In March, GMIT, in conjunction with The ument in the landscape. The ESB agreed to Heritage Council and Galway County Council, began heritage studies evening classes in the this, and Bierrums of Bedfordshire UK carried 3 Heritage News Furniture College, Letterfrack. The eight-week O'Neill have also signed up to host the cultur- course will act as a stepping stone for students al landscape and natural history aspects of the hoping to earn new third-level qualifications. course. "People wanted to know more about Galway's Heritage Officer, Marie Mannion has their local heritage," explained Paul Gosling, worked with Mary MacCague, Head of who specialises in architecture and archaeology. Department in the School of Humanities in To learn more about the foundation course in GMIT, in setting up the eight-week foundation Heritage Studies, contact the School of course. GMIT lecturers Paul Gosling, Carol Humanities in GMIT. Gleeson, Dr Cillian Roden, and Deird re WORLD BIODIVERSITY DAY Saturday May 22nd was World Biodiversity Day and Sophie McCann, Joshua Adido, and Abbie Soon came out to launch a series of local biodiversity events across the countr y, which were coordinated by The Heritage Council in association with local authorities. Events includ- ed guided walks, tree planting, and a coastal wildlife day. Museum Standards BIODIVERSITY IN CO CLARE and Accreditation This recently-published booklet, introducing Pilot study partici- pants: Martina the biodiversity of County Clare, provides an Malone, Heritage explanation of biodiversity, its importance, and Council; Michael Corcoran, National what it means in the county. One of the main Transport Museum; aims of a Local Biodiversity Action Plan is to Michael Starrett, Heritage Council; raise public awareness and involvement in the Liam Kelly, c o n s e rvation of biodiversity. Spot the 101 National Transport Habitats and Species Museum; and Eithne Verling, in Clare describes 101 Heritage Council habitats and species that occur in the Authors of the mapguides series c o u n t y, including Peter Harbison both rare and familiar and Joss Lynam attended species. the launch of the Copies are avail- Pilgrim Paths able from Elaine Guides in the Royal Irish Keegan, Biodiversity Academy, Action Plan Pro j e c t Dawson Street M a n a g e r, email: recently. e k e e g a n @ c l a re c o c o . i e , Tel. 065-6846456. 4 Heritage News LAUNCH OF PILGRIM PATH GUIDES Representatives of the pilgrim routes committees, with the Heritage Council Project Steering Group. L to R: Fr Tomás O Caoimh; Isabel Bennett, Cosán na Naomh; Joss Lynam; Michael Begg, St Kevin's Way; Dagmar O Riain Raedel; Deborah Maxwell, Lough Derg; Noel Ahern TD, Minister for State at the Dept of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs; Willie Mullen, St Kevin's Way; Stephen Ryan, St Kevin's Way; Peter Harbison; and Ruth Delany.
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