Welcome to
Heritage Keepers
Heritage Keepers is a free heritage education programme for primary schools and community groups across Ireland that empowers participants to delve into their built, cultural and natural heritage and provides funding to allow them to take positive local action!
Applications to take part in the national online programme for the 2026-27 season are now closed.
However, we’re delighted to offer a special in-person Heritage Keepers workshop for groups in Munster and County Wexford!
Do you live in Munster or County Wexford? Gather at least five people and explore your local heritage together at our workshop on 23 January 2027 at the Woodlands Hotel in Adare, Co. Limerick. Your group could be a local organisation, club, society or simply people who share an interest in their place.
Click here to apply: https://submit.link/5On
Heritage Keepers Impact
90 %
began discussing local heritage after Heritage Keepers
95 %
felt they enhanced their local heritage after Heritage Keepers
3676
people directly benefitted from Heritage Keepers
200
local heritage actions completed nationwide
99 %
participants recommend taking part in heritage keepers
Heritage Keepers Projects
We are incredibly proud and grateful of all our previous Heritage Keepers participants, who have shown an inspiring amount of pride in their place and proven themselves to be wonderful stewards of their community. Here are some of the actions they have taken to promote or preserve their local built, cultural or natural heritage.
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What is the Heritage Keepers programme?
What they said...
I feel the very act of focusing in on our local space, through the different heritage lenses, just that close looking and discussion awoke or deepened in many of the children their sense of belonging in their communities, their sense of pride in their place and ultimately a sense of agency in regard to it.
Teacher Meriel Donaghy, Holy Trinity NS, Westport.
Heritage Keepers Involves
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