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Archaeological Licenses and Consents

A new improved online application system for licences, consents and directions is presently under development and will be available on the website shortly.

 

At present there are 7 separate licenses and consents required under the relevant National Monuments Acts 1930-2004 and the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997:

• Licence for Archaeological Excavation

• Detection Device Consent

• Dive Survey Licence

• Ministerial Directions for archaeological works on an approved road development (and prison development under the Prisons Act 2007)

• Ministerial Consent for works at/near a national monument in the ownership/guardianship of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht or a local authority

• Licence to Export an Archaeological Object

• Licence to Alter an Archaeological Object

 

It is also possible to transfer a licence or consent.