Location Scout Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our Irish location scouts work from the Screen Ireland location library plus the in-house archives at the major production houses. The senior scouts found the Banshees of Inisherin Achill Island and Inishmore Aran Islands locations (the cold-October Atlantic shoot that became the 2023 nine-Oscar-nom McDonagh film), the Star Wars Skellig Michael UNESCO site (accessed by helicopter and curragh under OPW oversight), Saving Private Ryan Curracloe Beach Wexford, The Princess Bride Cliffs of Moher.

Here is the short of it. Brooklyn Enniscorthy, Vikings Lough Tay (the Black Lake doubling for Norway), The Quiet Man Cong Mayo, Far and Away Dingle Peninsula, the broader Game of Thrones Northern Ireland portfolio (Castle Ward Winterfell, Cushendun Caves, Ballintoy Harbour Iron Islands, Murlough Bay, Tollymore Forest Haunted Forest, the Dark Hedges Kingsroad). Plus the recent An Cailín Ciúin (Quiet Girl) 2023 Best International Feature Oscar nom Gaeltacht locations and The Wonder West-of-Ireland Famine-era farms. Scouting database covers Wicklow Mountains National Park, Connemara National Park, Killarney, Glenveagh, Burren, plus the OPW heritage portfolio.

Here is the breakdown. Scout coverage spans the Wild Atlantic Way (Donegal-Mayo-Galway-Clare-Kerry-Cork corridor, 2,500km coastal route including Cliffs of Moher, Slieve League, Skellig Michael, Mizen Head, Ring of Kerry, Slea Head, Dingle Peninsula, Achill Island, Inishmore-and-Inishmaan-and-Inisheer, Connemara fjords), the Ancient East (Newgrange Neolithic passage tomb, Trinity Long Room, Kilmainham Gaol, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Castle, the GPO O'Connell Street. The Rock of Cashel.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Glendalough monastic ruins, Blarney Castle, Bunratty Castle, Powerscourt House and Gardens, Trim Castle), urban Dublin (Georgian doors-and-fanlights Merrion Square, Silicon Docks Grand Canal, Trinity, Temple Bar), Cork harbor and the broader city, Galway Spanish Arch and the Latin Quarter, Limerick King John's Castle. Plus Belfast Titanic Quarter, the Mourne Mountains, the Causeway Coast, the Giant's Causeway, and Tollymore Forest in Northern Ireland. Deliverables include scout-book PDFs with GPS sets up, what3words tags, OS Discovery Map references, drone-permit windows, IAA (Irish Aviation Authority) drone-clearance, plus the OPW heritage-access window calendar.

Section 481 32% tax credit qualifies scouting spend plus the 40% regional uplift, EUR Eurozone and GBP NI dual-currency.