Lesson Plans and Education Packs

Dublin's Monumental Mountains

Explore the archaeological landscape on your doorstep with the Dublin Mountains Community Archaeology programme. Find out more about the history of people in the mountains over thousands of years in our booklets Dublin's Monumental Mountains and Sléibhte Séadchomhartha Bhaile Átha Cliath.

Check out these short videos for an overview of The Story of the Dublin Mountains and Dublin's Megalithic Mountains. 

Check out the Lesson Plans designed to support the teaching of information about the creation and archaeology of the Dublin Mountains to senior primary school students in English (Dublin's Monumental Mountains Lesson Plans) and Irish (Sléibhte Séadchomhartha Bhaile Átha Cliath_Pleananna Ceachta).

These are all part of a series of resources and training rolled out in collaboration with South Dublin County Council, the Dublin Mountains Partnership with core funding from the Heritage Council.

Placenames

The Placenames Database of Ireland was created by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge in collaboration with the Placenames Branch (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht). This is a comprehensive management system for data, archival records and placenames research conducted by the State. It is a public resource for Irish people at home and abroad, and for all those who appreciate the rich heritage of Irish placenames.

The talk Where do Local Placenames come from? by Seamus Cannon explains the history behind the names of the streets and places of south Dublin.

Streetnames and placenames are an integral part of the heritage of the county as they reflect the history, culture and language of the area over a long period of time. The booklet of Streetnames and
Placenames of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown helps to preserve that rich heritage.

Placenames in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown is Primary Schools' Resource by Dr Séamus Cannon and Ríonach O Callaghan in association with dlr Libraries and Blackrock Education Centre. This resource includes Lesson Plans that cover topics such as the origin of Dún Laoghaire, Martello Towers, the derivation of Early Christian and more recent Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown placenames, royal connections and the growth of the harbour.

The Placenames Database of Ireland is a comprehensive management system for the placenames data, records and research of the State. It is a public resource for Irish people at home and abroad, and for all those who appreciate the rich heritage of Irish placenames.