Rural Life
Ireland wins EU heritage award for Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme
Ireland is among one of five winners for the 2024 European Heritage Awards or Europa Nostra Awards for the Traditional...
Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme
Rural Life
Minister: Vote for Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme in awards
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has reminded everyone that voting is open for the ‘Public Choice’...
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Milk replacer: Advice on maximising early-life calf growth
During the past decade, calf rearing systems around the world have adopted higher allowances of whole milk or of calf...
CAP / Schemes
70 traditional farm buildings secured grant aid in 2023
70 buildings, along with several other related farm structures, were allocated funding under the Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme in...
Rural Life
Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme receives EU heritage award
The Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme, which supports participants in repairing farm buildings, has been awarded the European Heritage Award in...
Rural Life
176 apply for grant to restore traditional farm buildings
A total of 176 applications have been received by the Heritage Council for the 2024 Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme....
Buildings
One week to apply for Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme
Applicants to the 2024 Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme (TFBS) have one week left to submit their applications. The scheme, which...
Rural Life
Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme opens for applications
The 2024 Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme (TFBS) for the conservation and repair of traditional farm buildings and related structures is...
Rural Life
Rare hay barn restored to former glory in Cavan
Restoration works have recently been completed on an unusual style of hay barn that is located on a farm in...
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Tyrone dairy farmer reduces calf mortality to just 1%
A Co. Tyrone dairy farm has reduced calf mortality to just 1% and has no post-weaning growth checks, thanks to...
Buildings
Gort sheep farmer's building repair provides roosting area for bats
A sheep farmer from Ballylee, Gort, Co. Galway who has just concluded work on her repair project under the latest...
Buildings
Mayo farmer first to finish with granary repair
Padraic Kenny of Falleighter, Aghamore, Ballyhaunis, is one of two Mayo farmers who have become the first to complete their...
CAP / Schemes
Department criticised for traditional building grant eligibility
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been criticised for the eligibility conditions for the Traditional Farm Buildings...
Environment
Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme yields historic find
Co. Mayo farmer Pat Chambers has participated in a video to highlight the value of the Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme...
Rural Life
€1.25m Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme to open this month
A budget of €1.25 million has been allocated to the 2023 Traditional Farm Buildings Scheme (TFBS), the Department of Agriculture,...
Environment
New life breathed into Lombardstown farm building
A Lombardstown, Co. Cork building, originally constructed as a dwelling house, which subsequently fell into disrepair in the early 1900s...
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Genap slurry tanks perform to the highest of EU standards
Genap slurry tanks are new to Ireland. Manufactured in Europe and conforming to the highest EU standards for slurry and...
Environment
1850s former estate building gets new lease of life
Dating back to the mid-1850s, this imposing two-storey stone building, once part of the Cotton family estate, in Tulsk, Co....
Rural Life
1830s granary restored to former glory on Cavan farm
Farming in Stradone, Co. Cavan, Thomas Cooney is a beef and dairy farmer who recently undertook an ambitious project to...
Buildings
1890s farm building transformed to former glory
A farm building in Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, dating back to the 1890s, has been repaired to great effect under the...
Buildings
Back to glory: GLAS grant helps repair stone barn in Kerry
“It’s all a bit mental, but fun,” Kate Carmody told Agriland as a project to repair a 200-year-old stone barn...