The National Monuments Service has a longstanding relationship with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). The RIA manages a suite of archaeology research grant schemes, supported by National Monuments Service funding that facilitates the grants and also supports various relevant publications.
The grant schemes administered by the RIA are:
- the Archaeological Archives Research Grant
- the Archaeological Research for World Heritage Properties and Tentative List Scheme
- the Archaeology Legacy Grants Scheme
- Archaeology Research Excavation Grants and
- Archaeology Research Grants.
The grant streams are available annually, and various open call application dates are announced by the RIA. Further details are available on the RIA website: https://www.ria.ie/grants/