Members of the public take part in an archaeological dig at Swords Castle and learn about our past.
More than 1,800 events are taking place across the country as part of National Heritage Week, with 400,000 people expected to take part in what is the largest cultural festival in the country.
In North County Dublin, 'Swords Castle - Digging History' is a National Heritage Week community archaeology project. It involves a team of volunteers managed by community archaeologist with Fingal County Council, Christine Baker.
Volunteer archaeologist Sandra Murphy is awestruck by the work she is doing.
It's amazing to think that nobody else has touched it for like five, six hundred years.
Fingal County Council heritage officer Gerry Clabby thinks heritage gives people a sense of being rooted,
Where we have come from and why we are here.
Christine Baker loves the enthusiasm shown for archaeology. The Digging History project enables people to have a go and hopefully grow a love for archaeology.
While reawakening a connection to the castle, the Digging History project has also yielded hundreds of artifacts.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 23 August 2015. The reporter is Samantha Libreri.
