Our central aim is to provide excellent service and great value for money to everyone who visits the sites in our care.

We take a sustainable approach to managing and conserving these sites. In doing this, we try to maintain the highest standards of quality and apply best professional practice at all times.

We are proactive in engaging with partners, both within OPW and externally, to help us manage the heritage estate. We also recognise the value of relationships with international heritage partners and measure our activities and aims against the best examples available, accessing quality research to ensure excellent outcomes for Irish heritage.

We are committed to promoting an understanding of the ideals represented by our shared cultural inheritance. We believe that this will lead to a better understanding on the part of the general public about the importance of our heritage and a greater willingness to engage in protecting it for future generations.