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Watch: The art of thatch - Ireland's disappearing heritage industry
Master thatcher, John Brereton, who has been thatching since the age of 14, has claimed that the industry now faces...
Thatched cottage
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€9m to restore heritage buildings in communities across the country
Minister of State for nature, heritage and electoral reform at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Malcolm Noonan,...
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Call for action to preserve thatched cottages
The owners of thatched cottages need to be better supported with new improved grant aid and critically, a national insurance...
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Thatched cottage restoration was family's lockdown project
For one Tyrone family, lockdown passed in a whirl, as they tackled the refurbishment of an old thatched cottage in...
