Three Donegal projects have received important grants under this year’s Historic Structures Fund (HSF).
Among the 95 recipients nationwide, Donegal’s successful HSF project includes awards to:
- The Clock Tower, Main Street, Ballyshannon (pictured): funding of €50,000 for the internal structural repair of walls and floors.
- Cavanacor House, Ballindrait: funding of €26,000 for repairs to rainwater goods and also the conservation and repair of external doors and windows.
- Clonleigh Parish Church, Lifford: funding of €32,000 for the conservation and repair of cast iron window frames and surrounding cut stone tracery.
By providing grants of between €15,000 and €200,000, the HSF assists owners of a range of buildings, including those on the local authorities’ Record of Protected Structures and those in Architectural Conservation Areas.
The scheme provides assistance to a wide range of heritage structures, including castles, churches, mills, bridges, shopfronts, and thatch structures as well as to private houses.
The Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform at the Department of Housing, Local
Government and Heritage, Malcolm Noonan, the 95 heritage projects across the country will benefit from a total of €4.5m.
In addition to supporting owners and custodians of historic and protected structures to safeguard and maintain their properties, this funding will also provide a welcome boost to local construction and heritage trades by facilitating works with a total value of over €8m and generating more employment (an estimated 11,250 days’ labour), including for specialist heritage roles such as thatching and stone work.
The HSF is one of two built heritage funding schemes which work in partnership with owners and the 31 local authorities to protect our built heritage. The week’s announcement follows the
awarding earlier this month of €4.5m in funding under the Department’s other built heritage grant scheme – the Built Heritage Investment Scheme.
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