A final version of the Historic Landscape Characterisation talk I did at a Continuous Professional Development Course in Co Clare

1. An Introduction to Historic Landscape Characterisation — an evolving methodology David Sankey

4. Historic Landscape Character Types

5. The HLC Process

6. Ditto part 2

7. Types in Árainn Winterage and cliff Infield, settlement and shore

8. …are not the only thing bearna ag togáil bearna ag leagan bearna Dun Aengus

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10. Clare HLC Manual types

11. Towards All-Ireland HLC types

12. Real world comparison FSTR Strip Fields FSMD Medium straight bounded fields TW ancient and mixed woodland AND TP plantation OEST Rough ground large enclosures straight boundaries © CUCAP OESC Former farmland reverting to rough grazing

13. Sources

14. interpretation

15. GIS application 100m-buffer around Churches, graveyards, c illín , crosses, mass rocks, bullaun, holy wells, and penitential stations – 3 or more buffers cross =devotional and ceremonial landscape

16. Oblique vs vertical views

17. Admiralty charts and transits

18. Spanish Point Holy well –a landscape feature. Not a landscape type but might get into a text Golf links in dune system

19. … in the 1840s Causeway to Milltown Malbay Atlantic Hotel Boggy ground now divided by strip fields

20. Long distance coastal views

21. Spanish Point today Atlantic Hotel ruins Armada Hotel

22. from types to areas HLC-types LCA-types Landscape Character Area

23. Historic analysis through LCA to policy LANDSCAPE SENSITIVITY IN COUNTY CLARE, APPENDIX 7, Clare County Development Plan 2005 LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT “… .. . Most of the field boundaries date to this period but there is a distinct area of enclosed strip fields surrounded by irregular rough ground north of O’Briensbridge (EL3, RG2 & RG3 in concentric rings) — potentially a site of Rundale agriculture. .” FROM: LCA9 River Shannon Farmlands, Human Influences

24. New resources Newgrove House Aerial Photo More accurate mapping of types of field boundaries: wild hedges, field banks or stone walls