Built Heritage and Conservation (Leaving Cert Construction Studies): Flashcards

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The Natural and the Built Environment
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Built heritage

Buildings & structures created by ancestors

NIAH

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

Four NIAH categories

Fortified, Religious, Formal, Informal architecture

Settlement

How communities form when people establish in particular areas

Five key settlement factors

Shelter, water, food, raw materials, trading routes

Rivers that aided Dublin & Waterford's growth

River Liffey and River Suir

Key principle for natural & built environment

Should exist in harmony with each other

Location of Ireland's earliest known settlement

Mount Sandel, Coleraine, County Derry

Date of Mount Sandel settlement

7000 BC

Mount Sandel structures

Circular huts, 6 metres across, central hearth

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