Ireland · Stone craft; Architecture; Irish heritage
Claidhe Cloiche na hÉireann — Traidisiún Fálta Cloiche
The Irish dry stone walling tradition — the building of the distinctive Irish field walls without mortar (particularly the Burren limestone pavements and the Aran Islands gray limestone field system) using the specific Irish random rubble placing technique that allows the Atlantic wind to pass through the wall while maintaining its structural integrity. The Irish gailleadóir reads the stone placement quality through the same rock-and-settle assessment as the Zagori Greek dry stone (CRAFT-1582) but calibrated to the specific Irish limestone random rubble rather than the Zagori shaped blocks.
Risk level: Stable · UNESCO ICH 2018 — dry stone walling joint inscription (Ireland, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, etc.); the same inscription as the Zagori tradition (CRAFT-1582)
The Aran Islands knitting tradition of the three Aran Islands (Inis Mór, Inis Meáin, Inis Oírr) in Galway Bay — the production of the distinctive Aran sweater (geansaí) in unscoured, naturally oily báinín wool with the characteristic…
The Irish rush work tradition — the working of the freshwater bulrush (Juncus effusus) into the distinctive St.
The Irish sally rod basketry tradition — the production of the distinctive Irish wicker baskets from the sally rod (Salix viminalis — the Irish basket willow) whose specific Atlantic coastal climate produces a willow with particular…
The Irish bodhran making tradition — the production of the distinctive Irish frame drum from a single goatskin stretched over a circular wooden frame, whose specific skin tension determines the playing range and tone quality of the…
The Irish soda bread baking tradition — the production of the distinctive Irish quick bread leavened with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk rather than yeast, whose specific baking chemistry and Irish soft wheat flour produces the…
The Donegal tweed weaving tradition of Northwest Ireland — the production of the distinctive Irish handwoven woolen cloth whose characteristic random fleck of contrasting color in the warp and weft (the Donegal slub) creates the most…
The conservation of the historic Lüneburg salt cellar vaulting — the medieval limestone vaults of the salt storage and trade buildings whose foundations have been structurally compromised by centuries of salt dissolution in the underlying…
The conservation of the Freiburg Münster — the Gothic cathedral whose tower (completed 1330, called by Jacob Burckhardt 'the most beautiful tower in Christendom') is built primarily from Buntsandstein (red triassic sandstone) that weathers…
The carving of locally quarried stone by families of stone carvers in Huambocancha Alta and the Porcón area, a few kilometers north of the city of Cajamarca in the northern Peruvian Andes.
A supplement record documenting the conservation of the Bremen Roland — the 5.5-meter sandstone statue of Roland (symbol of civic freedom) standing in the Bremen Marktplatz since 1404, UNESCO World Heritage (2004), the oldest free-standing…
The hand-extraction of two distinct mineral products, red salt for human consumption and natron for animal feed, from two separate and specifically named salt flats in northern Chad, each worked exclusively by a different gender.
The carving and polishing of Baltic amber collected from the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts — the world's largest natural amber deposit, producing 'Gold des Nordens' (Gold of the North) that has been worked as a luxury…