Breochloch.Presentation and vision

BREOCHLOCHLaboratory of Creative HeritageSaotharlann Oidhreachta Cruthaith

Living the Heritage

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Breochloch, Laboratory of Creave Heritage is here to help you get involved in

exploring the archaeology and history of where you live!

Study of the past has become an increasingly popular and diverse acvity enjoyed

by people of all ages. All places have a history and it is the way that we explore our

past that brings it to life. The past is not just about the rich and wealthy, it is about

the daily life of everyone.

We can study the past in many interesng and excing ways - by interpreng

landscapes, recording old buildings, nding lost selements, idenfying baleeld

sites, recording stories and oral histories, re-enactment, and nding archaeological

remains!

We want YOU to get involved in exploring the history and archaeology of West

Belfast. You can help us to manage and protect the historic environment by

learning more about it in creave and fun ways. You can tell others about that you

have learnt by creang heritage trails, websites, local history books, producing art

or photography, and hosng exhibions and workshops.

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Breochloch.Laboratory of Creave Heritage is a Social Enterprise

specialising in social development and research for communies and

small businesses drawing on heritage resources. We aim to become

your rst stop for thoughul, crical, transformaonal news about

Heritage and communies. Look around at our projects, background

and blog inspired by good pracce in community building from

Heritage and beyond. We're always on the lookout for new ways to

use Heritage to make a dierence in communies and organisaons,

so get in touch!

West Belfast Cultural Heritage is rich and diverse -from prehistoric standing stones, to medieval

churches, graveyeards and memorials to post-medieval industrial buildings ant to WW2 defence

features. The best known of these site are recorded and protected for by organisaons sucha as the

Department of Enviroment (DoENI), Naonal Trust NI, local authories and even land-owner, but

this stewardship only extended to a small percentage of West Belfast Cultural Heritage. Many other

sites need urgent care and aenon to ensure that they survive for future generaons.

Taken part in our projects will equip volunteers with new skills in archaeological elwork and

conservaon, which can be used again and again to promote their own Heritage. It's also a great

way to keep acve, develop new skills, meet new people and achieve real results.

BREOCHLOCH LCH oers support and advice to community groups who want to take on heritage

projects that deal with the key themes of conservaon, access improvement,and interpretaon.

We will provide training in a range of skills tailored to the needs of each group. This includes survey

and recording; documentary research; project management; fundraising; hosng educaonal

events, and interpreve planning - you name it, we provide it, or else nd someone who can!

The real benet of our approach is the symbiosis between monument and community. The

monument itself is conserved, celebrated and interpreted for the future, and the act of

parcipang in the project brings the group together with new skills and condence, and a real

sense of ownership of the heritage on its doorstep. The interpreve side of Breochloch poses real

challenges for communies. They need to achieve two things which at rst seem mutually exclusive

- enabling the individual experience or feel of a monument to be enjoyed freely without too much

prescripon; but also making it as physically and intellectually accessible as possible.

BREOCHLOCH Laboratory of Creave Heritage is working hard to make West Belfast's past

accessible and enjoyable for everyone, this includes helping communies to care for the heritage

that belongs to us all. Many archaeological sites and monuments across our community are in need

of care and maintenance but few have owners with the resources to make this happen. Equally,

there are people who wish to step in to do something to help protect these monuments for the

future and to increase our understanding of them.

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Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the vocaon and pracce of managing cultural heritage. It is a

branch of cultural resources management, although it also draws on the pracces of conservaon,

restoraon, museology, archaeology, history and architecture.

We oer our client a wide range of services in management also we're especialist in Interpretaon of

Heritage. Interpretaon refers to the full range of potenal acvies intended to heighten public

awareness and enhance understanding of cultural heritage site.

By providing strategic advice at the outset of a project we can help oset any dicules that may arise at

pre-planning or planning stage. We provide strong and experienced representaon for our clients during

consultaons with planners, local authority archaeologists and conservaon ocers through-out the

planning process. By working closely with the other professionals within the design team we clearly set

out the relevant issues and deliver common-sense soluons.

Our consultancy services include:

Planning advice on all aspects of cultural heritage.

Site feasibility assessment.

Public consultaons.

Planning negoaons and mediaon.

CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSESSMENTS

We have considerable experience in preparing cultural heritage assessments. Our objecve is to

accurately assess the signicance of the cultural heritage of a site, assess the impact of a development

on it and work with the client and design team to develop appropriate migaon measures.

We provide experse in the following areas:

Desk-top assessments.

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA).

Local Area Plans (LAPs).

Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA).

Environmental Reports.

Master Plans.

Scoping Documents.


We provide a comprehensive range of archaeological and built heritage services to the

development industry. Our clients include architects, planners, developers, local

authories, semi-state bodies and government departments. We have the ability to

meet all of our clients cultural heritage needs from pre-planning advice, to managing

archaeological requirements on-site, through to securing full planning compliance. Our

aim is to provide an excellent service to our clients by supplying good advice, pre-

empng potenal dicules and delivering pragmac value for money soluons whilst

ensuring that the project is completed on me, within budget and to the highest

archaeological standards.

We oer our clients a wide range of services, which ensures that we can provide for all

of their Archaeological and Built Heritage needs. We have the technical skills and

experience to allow us deliver pragmac and exible soluons to any archaeological

situaon no maer how complex and challenging. Our strength lies in our experience,

which is backed-up with a proven track-record of delivering for our clients.

FIELD SERVICES

Our clients expect Breochloch to provide a full archaeological service, working on their

behalf; idenfying and minimising risks, assessing liability, idenfying reasonable costs

as early as possible. Evaluaons, watching briefs and excavaons are roune parts of

our work and are always undertaken to the highest standard.

ARTEFACTS POTTERY, SMALL FINDS, LITHICS

Artefacts provide a chronological framework and add detail regarding site funcon and

status. Whether they are stone tools or cannon balls, the skill is knowing how to

respond to such discoveries, how to treat them, their interpretave value and which

specialist to seek advice from. Artefacts are key to the understanding of archaeological

sites.

HISTORIC BUILDINGS

Planning authories, developers and conservaon groups increasingly see historic

building analysis as an integral part of development control and heritage management.

We have responded through the applicaon of new me-saving technology and the

creaon of a dedicated and qualied team. Historic buildings are a valued and integral

part of our heritage.


Professional Archaeology

C o n s u l t a n c y

Comhairle Ghairmiil

S h e a n d l a o c h t a

Community Archaeology

Seandlaocht an Phobail

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Heritage Education

Oideachas Oidhreachta


Primive skills refers to prehistoric handicras and pre-industrial technology.

Primive skills are those skills that relate to living o the land, oen using

handcraed tools made from naturally gathered materials. Examples of

primive skills include: gathering and foraging nave plants and animals for

food, skinning and preparing game, basketry and pot making, construcng

shelters, re making, and useful plant idencaon.

Interest in primive skills has coincided with a resurgence in interest in

natural and self-sucient living techniques.

P r i m i t i v e S k i l l s A c t i v i t i e s

Gnomhaochta Scileanna Seanrsa

Breochloch-LCH preserves ancient skills that develop awareness and

suciency by providing a learning space with an emphasis on

individuals, community interacons, and the environment in

relaon to todays world.

We organizes tailor made bushcra acvies for groups of all ages

and backgrounds, from one day to a full week.

The educaonal services provided are founded upon an

educaonal philosophy which seeks to engage, smulate

and challenge learners. Enquiry and discovery-based

learning lies at the heart of learning programmes and

teaching sessions designed and provided by Breochloch.

Learning acvies and programmes of study will be

exible and responsive to meet the needs and desires of

individual clients. There is much scope for learning

outside the classroom. Archaeology is viewed as being an

excing and dynamic eld of study with massive cross-

curricula study potenal.

The word archaeology does not appear in the Curriculum of Northern Ireland. However;

It is a tremendous aid to understanding many areas of the curriculum.

It involves kinaesthec learning and so reaches those children who nd verbal learning

dicult.

It accesses many of the higher thinking and working skills.

It is easy to use many of the co-operave learning structures that help children to

learn.

Archaeology involves several intellectual processes:

Analysing what we know already and using this knowledge to make hypotheses

Asking quesons that we hope our invesgaons will answer

Discovering the evidence, revising our original hypotheses and tesng them against

what we have discovered.

Working forward to a new set of quesons/hypotheses

Historical&Archaeological Tours

Turais Stairila agus Seandlaocha

Re-anactment Events

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Heritage tourism is a branch of tourism oriented towards the

cultural heritage of the locaon where tourism is occurring.

Cultural aracons play an important role in tourism at all levels,

from the global highlights of world culture to aracons that

underpin local idenes.

Heritage tourism encompasses elements of living culture, history,

and natural history of place that communies value and steward

for the future. These elements are very specic to a community or

region and can contribute to pride, stability, growth, and

economic development.

Living history is an acvity that incorporates historical tools, acvies and dress

into an interacve presentaon that seeks to give observers and parcipants a

sense of stepping back in me. Although it does not necessarily seek to reenact

a specic event in history, living history is similar to, and somemes

incorporates, historical reenactment. Living history is an educaonal medium

used by living history museums, historic sites, heritage interpreters, schools

and historical reenactment groups to educate the public or their own members

in parcular areas of history, such as clothing styles, pasmes and handicras,

or to simply convey a sense of the everyday life of a certain period in history.

Inr gcna lenr

n-Oidhreacht

Living the Heritage

119 Bothr na Bhfl,

An Cheathr Ghaeltachta,

Bal Feirste, BT12 6AA

07952909135

[email protected]

www.breochloch.net


119 Falls Road,

The Gaeltacht Quarter,

Belfast, BT12 6AA

07952909135

[email protected]

www.breochloch.net

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