Explore Mayo heritage on your phone or tablet for free

YOU can now explore Ireland's and Mayo's heritage for free on your phone or tablet.

HeritageMaps.ie provides free web access to information on the built, cultural and natural heritage around Ireland and offshore.

Developed by the Heritage Council and a range of partners, including local authority heritage officers, there are over 600 datasets displayed in map form available on the viewer, with over 150,000 mapped points of heritage and or cultural interest and almost 1,000 biking and hiking trails.

HeritageMaps.ie allows people to create customised maps and explore a vast range of Ireland’s heritage, including pilgrim paths, burial grounds, museums, archaeological sites, maritime collections and walled towns, all from their phone, tablet or desktop.

Explaining how the platform works, Pat Reid of HeritageMaps.ie said: “The viewer builds up national coverage of heritage datasets from local authority sources as well as using existing national datasets. It uses web services to access live data where possible, increasing data reliability. Users can also create cross-disciplinary views from hundreds of datasets - crossing over administrative boundaries, subject boundaries, and the land-sea boundary.”

HeritageMaps.ie has been developed by the Heritage Council, working over the past 18 months with local authorities, local heritage officers, the National Biodiversity Data Centre, the Discovery Programme and Compass Informatics.