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Local community groups are trained in low-cost, high-tech, field survey of historic graveyards and recording of their own oral histories. Building a multi-media, online record, of the historic graveyards in their own areas.</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Community archaeology is all about relationships. It takes time to build a relationship and effort to maintain it. For a heritage project relationship to work, to sustain, there must be equal benefits for each participant. In graveyard surveys the Historic Graves team look to publish good quality survey data while learning about a new place. Our participating groups look to learn a new skill (graveyard survey) and to do real work. One of the groups we have worked with continually since 2011 is the Cultural and Heritage Studies team in Tramore Road Campus, Cork and together we surveyed two Cork graveyards across a 3-4 week period. The third leg of the stool for these surveys were Cork City Council whose archaeologist, Ciara Brett, arranged access for us to two graveyards under their stewardship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The students learned our system of number, photo, record sheet for every mortuary monument in Ballintemple and Inniscarra graveyards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/temple-hill-ballintemple/co-tehl&quot;&gt;https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/temple-hill-ballintemple/co-tehl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/st-senan-s-inniscarra/co-ssin&quot;&gt;https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/st-senan-s-inniscarra/co-ssin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The class consisted of the usual mix of Tramore Road Campus students. From students who have just left school to many who have retired, are getting back into education, or are recent arrivals to Ireland they all brought a positive attitude to what can be relatively challenging work especially when done in November and January. Combining the benefits of young keen eyesight with the research capabilities and lifetime experience of the older student cohort both surveys resulted in some of the quickest projects we have been involved in. The Historic Graves system usually has the survey data online within days of the survey but full data entry can take weeks if not months to complete. In this case the students had the data entry complete the week after they started each survey. Now we have over 500 headstones online with the associated biographical details and some historical research underway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having such a diligent team we took the opportunity of an Incultum.eu grant to test some new methods for our survey system. Since 2021 we have been using iPhones for the survey photographs as we find the accuracy of the alway-on GPS and accelerometer combination gets us more accurate geolocations for each survey photograph. Increased accuracy is a very positive plus for our studies but the iPhone does have filenaming challenges which adversely affect our workflows. In an attempt to overcome these challenges we tested a number of filenaming and filetagging software applications during these surveys. Testing new work systems can be expensive and in this case the tests added another days work to our usual system. Unfortunately the tests did not work out as hoped. The filetagging software did work for labelling each survey photo but in each case it resulted in a deterioration in the quality of the GPS locations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Incultum project allows us to test new systems and software but it also allows us to take a broader, European, view of grassroots heritage projects. A key learning has been about the relationships that we mentioned earlier. Sustainable relationships need sustainable resourcing. From a professional heritage perspective sustainable resources are crucial to how we support community groups and right now, in 2023, we&#039;re not quite there. Our project is small and with a tight team who have worked together for over 20 years but for the project to persist into the future we need to think about resources. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Ciara Brett of Cork City Council, Shane Lehane of Tramore Road Campus, and to all of the students who participated in the survey work and helped us refine our systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog category:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog-category/places&quot;&gt;Places&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;How has the Incultum (incultum.eu) heritage tourism research project (Horizon 2020) influenced our understanding of the archaeology of 19th &amp;amp; 20th century institutional burial practices in Ireland?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Incultum project has allowed us to add innovative non-invasive survey to our usual work systems; testing an innovative GIS methodology to identify and analyse famine burial features. As field archaeologists the Historic Graves team identified the need to build a Dark History narrative based on scientific systems into our community surveys. Within Incultum and co-funded projects we have tested drone survey and lidar survey (pre-existing and new data collection) for unmarked Famine grave identification with very promising results.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since 2010 we have been encountering stories of famine related burials in Irish graveyards and considering famine was encountered in Ireland every generation until the 20th century that could be potentially quite a complex story to unpick. Concentrating on a number of Great Famine (1845-1852)  burial sites we have, with Incultum funding, developed a better understanding of 19th &amp;amp; 20th century institutional burial practices particularly by identifying and surveying a range of grave types. Working with historian Dr Aoife Bhreatnach in Carr’s Hill cemetery in Cork we became aware of the concept of Monster graves in Irish history. The phrase Monster graves was used in Irish newspapers from about 1847 to 1855 - it was a rhetorical phrase used to describe a form of mass institutional common burial previously unknown in Ireland. The institutional context of the 19th and 20th century burials differentiate burial practices from the previous conflict based mass burials in Ireland. Common graves are those which contain multiple, unrelated individuals and are usually institutional in origin/context.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An RIA 2021 grant to test drone photogrammetry and LIDAR surveys for unmarked grave identification proved surprisingly effective. Because institutional burial is often highly spatially organised we have shown that both narrow and long graves are identifiable with non-invasive techniques. A small number of development-led archaeological excavations have encountered Great Famine era burials in Ireland and Irish archaeologists have published all of these sites. However, there has been little study of the archaeology of Workhouse cemeteries and Incultum has allowed the Eachtra team to commence an innovative survey.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We started the Incultum works in the Summer of 2021 visiting and recording walkover videos (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPLPBjRb7FGer45g6Lh6K5GpiHK2njCfm&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPLPBjRb7FGer45g6Lh6K5GpiHK2njCfm&lt;/a&gt;) of just over 20 Workhouse and Mental Hospital cemeteries. In so doing we began to identify unmarked graves of varying shapes and sizes. It is an obvious point, but in field archaeology we have learned that stating the obvious is just good communications - studying unmarked graves in graveyards is a great way to learn about graves and can thereafter be used in the search and identification of unmarked graves outside formal burial grounds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For us walking up and down the paupers section of Sligo Old cemetery in 2017 was a great learning experience in terms of identifying marked and unmarked graves. Cemetery manager Brian Scanlon showed us how much of the paupers section was covered in graves albeit only a small number were kerbed and had gravestones. As many of the pauper’s graves appear to have been only used once we were seeing graves which had been opened and closed by gravediggers which apparently thereafter were never dug again or indeed never had top up soil added to keep the grave space levelled. An undulating ground surface was formed which we recognised in field walking and which subsequent examination of aerial and satellite images (google earth) also allowed to be identified as rows of grave depressions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When we tried to apply walkover surveys in Great Famine cemeteries under Incultum we quickly identified a problem. The cemeteries are often large - approx 1 ha in size and also often overgrown by grass tussocks, bracken, and brambles and we had severe difficulty in understanding the ground surface patterns we were encountering. Drone photogrammetry (with Dr Paul Naessens of Western Aerial Surveys) and lidar analysis (with Dr Steve Davis of UCD Archaeologiy Dept) quickly overcame these problems. Site-wide patterns began to emerge when we processed different ground models in QGIS. Photogrammetry is very useful where vegetation is short and can still identify ground surface patterns even with high vegetation but surprisingly a 10 year old TII Lidar dataset has proven to be the most useful way of identifying unmarked graves of various shapes and sizes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As part of our work for Incultum we presented the current state of our analysis of the archaeology of institutional burial to the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland at their annual spring conference in late March 2023. A twenty minute walk with 20 slides (see attached) was presented. Here we present an edited version of that slide show with its associated script. Because we are dealing with a number of 20th century institutional burial sites which are considered to be politically sensitive we removed three slides from the IAI presentation. We will present another version of this talk to the EAA in Belfast in Aug/Sept 2023 and we then plan to publish our research in an appropriate journal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As field archaeologists who work mostly with community volunteers we recognise the opportunities open to us. We tend to listen more than we talk as local historians tell us about their local cases of famine-related burial or burial practices. Incultum has allowed us to take a structured approach from 2021-2024 in recording the stories and the sites we encounter. In particular, it has allowed us to take a very technical approach to the identification and recording of  unmarked graves proposing a typology of narrow and long graves as well attempting to distinguish single-use graves from common graves. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Feel free to download the attached pdf and read the accompanying script.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We gratefully acknowledge grants from the RIA, the National Monuments Service (CMF) and Incultum. We also thank the TII archaeologists who gave us access to the &#039;raw&#039; lidar tiles used in our surveys. Our work in Carr&#039;s Hill Cork is being done in tandem with the HSE South. Thanks also to local archaeologists and community members who helped us in the various surveys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Suggested Reading&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fewer, T. G. 2012 The archaeology of the Great Famine: time for a beginning? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rmchapple.blogspot.com/2012/06/archaeology-of-great-famine-time-for.html&quot;&gt;http://rmchapple.blogspot.com/2012/06/archaeology-of-great-famine-time-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ruffell, A. et al. 2009 Location and assessment of an historic (150-160 years old) mass grave using geographic and ground penetrating radar investigation, NW Ireland. J Forensic Sci 2009 Mar;54(2):382-94. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00978.x.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19215325/&quot;&gt;https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19215325/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog category:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog-category/events&quot;&gt;Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-field-node-pdf field-type-file field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog PDF:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;file&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;file-icon&quot; alt=&quot;PDF icon&quot; title=&quot;application/pdf&quot; src=&quot;/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://historicgraves.com/sites/default/files/pdf-uploads/blog/iaidublin202319-20thcburialpracticesapr2023v2finalincultumblog.pdf&quot; type=&quot;application/pdf; length=15221335&quot;&gt;iaidublin202319-20thcburialpracticesapr2023v2finalincultumblog.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xcl2yKagCtE&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; width=&quot;560&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;Used to walking around Irish graveyards and being sensitive to burials and stories relating to the War of Independence (1919-1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) I realised I was in a very different place by the time I had finished this walk around San José cemetery in Granada . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;The organisation of the cemetery and the contrast between the high cost, high status mortuary monuments and the lower status burial structures were very similar to what we see in Ireland. It was very interesting to walk around the cemetery for the first time. However, finishing the visit by examining the outer cemetery wall which had been used for the execution of political prisoners from 1936/37 and afterwards also made me realise I did not have the background in modern Spanish history to correctly read the different layers of meaning embedded in this cemetery. For instance, which of the higher status mortuary monuments were for people who played a role in the repressive state regime of Franco? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;Based on our Irish experience the solution to this problem is to visit the cemetery on many occasions particularly in the company of local historians/archaeologists who are already engaged in a study of the place. We have also had the experience of talking to people from both sides of contested histories – and it is easier to do that for events which took place over 100 years ago rather than those which took place from the 1940s onwards as is often the case in Spain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&quot;&gt;This video was made as part of the Incultum_EU H2020 Project wherein we are working out how to engage with, and talk about difficult histories especially with visitors and tourists from other countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://second.wiki/wiki/cementerio_de_san_josc3a9_granada#Patio_segundo&quot;&gt;https://second.wiki/wiki/cementerio_de_san_josc3a9_granada#Patio_segundo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mpr.gob.es/memoriademocratica/mapa-de-fosas/Paginas/buscadormapafosas.aspx&quot;&gt;https://www.mpr.gob.es/memoriademocratica/mapa-de-fosas/Paginas/buscador...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span a=&quot;&quot; about=&quot;&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; already=&quot;&quot; and=&quot;&quot; archaeologists=&quot;&quot; are=&quot;&quot; as=&quot;&quot; based=&quot;&quot; cemetery=&quot;&quot; company=&quot;&quot; countries.=&quot;&quot; difficult=&quot;&quot; engage=&quot;&quot; engaged=&quot;&quot; especially=&quot;&quot; experience=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; from=&quot;&quot; h2020=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; histories=&quot;&quot; how=&quot;&quot; in=&quot;&quot; incultum_eu=&quot;&quot; irish=&quot;&quot; is=&quot;&quot; local=&quot;&quot; made=&quot;&quot; many=&quot;&quot; occasions=&quot;&quot; of=&quot;&quot; on=&quot;&quot; other=&quot;&quot; our=&quot;&quot; out=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;&quot; particularly=&quot;&quot; place.=&quot;&quot; problem=&quot;&quot; project=&quot;&quot; solution=&quot;&quot; span=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xcl2yKagCtE&quot; study=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);&amp;#10;&amp;lt;iframe width=&quot; talk=&quot;&quot; the=&quot;&quot; this=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; to=&quot;&quot; tourists=&quot;&quot; video=&quot;&quot; visit=&quot;&quot; visitors=&quot;&quot; was=&quot;&quot; we=&quot;&quot; wherein=&quot;&quot; who=&quot;&quot; with=&quot;&quot; working=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog category:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog-category/places&quot;&gt;Places&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the first time in two years the Heritage Council have a Community Heritage Grant Scheme (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/news/news-features/rebuilding-heritage-covid-19-stimulus-fund&quot;&gt;https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/news/news-features/rebuilding-heritage-co...&lt;/a&gt;) to support community groups in a range of heritage projects. Deadline for grant applications is Tuesday next, 15th September; grant decisions are due by the end of September and all works have to be complete but the 23rd of November 2020. The big difference in this grant is that it is a Covid-19 Stimulus Fund aimed at supporting community groups &amp;amp; professional archaeologists to get good quality, interesting work done in this exceptional year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When we first developed the Historic Graves Project in 2010 we intended that it would involve training local archaeologists who would then be funded to work within their own county in collaboration with local historical and archaeological  groups. However, we’ve never magic’ed up sufficient funding to achieve this goal. We have managed to survey approximately one graveyard a week since then with community partners, local authorities and Heritage officers. Some partners bring permission, others funding and most importantly, the project leaders ie. the local community bring their time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Given the exceptional circumstances of the last 6 months and the opportunity we see in the 2020 Community Heritage Fund we are now proposing a variation on our usual collaboration. Our core team are already busy working on community-led graveyard surveys in the Ballyhoura foothills so we don’t have a huge capacity to make grant applications ourselves. But new challenges require new ways of thinking. We reckon this current fund is in danger of being undersubscribed and the thought of the full fund not being used this year is vexing especially when we know how hard it is to get funding for community groups and how precarious the life of a field archaeologist can be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore we are asking if there are any experienced field archaeologists out there who are interested in &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. connecting with their local heritage/historical societies/Tidy Towns groups and see are they willing to make the funding application. The application process is straight forward as is the proposal. The main constraint is that the local group must have their own group bank accounts already set up. If interested we’d suggest you start contacting local groups immediately.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2.  learning the Historic Graves survey system across a 2 day training workshop at the end of September/start of October. We’ll provide the training free of charge. (The project submission will then cover approx 5 days work for the field archaeologist.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. doing the surveys to a good standard and on time. It’s all fieldwork and online data entry and a minimum of reporting is required.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We propose that participating archaeologists will issue quotations and invoices to the community group in their own name. Participating archaeologists will need to be tax complliant and have their own insurance in place. The Historic Graves Project will have to cover the costs of  supervision, data curation and long term archiving and will issue a costing and invoices for same.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe there is little interest in this proposal? Maybe we’ve read this wrong and the grant fund will be oversubscribed with realistic projects? If so then great. But if there are community groups out there wishing they could come up with interesting, enjoyable realistic projects for a small budget (total submitted budget is likely to be around 4k including matching funding with community voluntary labour); or if there are field archaeologists out there wishing the same then feel free to get in touch. To be clear, the grant will cover 80% of the costs but the communities will not need to make up the remaining 20% in money but can do so with voluntary labour &amp;amp; this voluntary labour component is built into the overall project cost as part of the application process.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We’re in the field these days with community groups in Cork so we are not on the phone very much. But if you are a field archaeologist or a community group looking to participate then email &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:john@historicgraves.com&quot;&gt;john@historicgraves.com&lt;/a&gt; or text 0872312107 and we can arrange a chat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The key questions for local community groups are 1. are they interested 2. have they a bank account in the name of the organisation 3. can they provide 6-8 volunteers across two consecutive days training survey in the Autumn? This is a good opportunity for community groups to get their local historic graveyard surveyed and published.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Heritage Council online grant system is very straight forward and a couple of hours will see good quality applications being submitted, ideally over next weekend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Covid-19 restrictions will apply. We are currently working in the field with groups of less than 15 people, wearing masks and providing gloves and masking and hand sanitiser. Associated costs are not onerous and will be built into the costings. It may seem daunting to do field projects in these conditions but experience has shown us this is doable &amp;amp; also that local communities are out and about anyway. The weather will be a factor too but it rarely affects our own schedules &amp;amp; locally based personnel are more adaptable than archaeologists parachuting in from other counties. This latter point may also be a factor as Covid-19 restrictions become even more likely to expand during the Autumn/Winter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Graveyard surveys are challenging and enjoyable. Done at the invite of a local community they build equal heritage partnerships which can develop into new project &amp;amp; we believe are a good match for the present grant scheme. We believe experienced archaeologists will learn our survey system quickly and we will provide supervision to overcome whatever inevitable blunders are made. Slow and steady is our motto during the surveys and fix the mistakes when you spot them. We&#039;re making this proposal in the spirit of the age - to support the super groups and field archaeologists we know are out there &amp;amp; also to maximise the impact of this heritage stimulus fund. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;image-640width caption&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;/sites/default/files/styles/640width/public/nodes-images/community-archaeology-time-covid-19-heritage-council-community-archaeology-fund-2020/img5531.jpg?itok=LzhlhXhN&quot; title=&quot;Team of local volunteers in Ballyhea, Co. Cork. 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It’s just that we’ve locked away the memories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;With an hour up my sleeve in N Cork y’day I decided to visit the TB Sanatorium Heatherside in the S foothills of the Ballyhoura Hills. Built as a TB Sanatorium in 1910 and operating as such til 1957. The place speaks to us from the past. Reminding us of what we know, knew, forget.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Before the commercial production of penicillin during WW2 TB was a pulmonary disease that could not be cured. Sanatoria like Heatherside were designed to improve the health of private and public patients. Similar sites are found at Crooksling, Dublin and Newcastle, Co. Wicklow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;South facing, with veranda’s so the patients could benefit from sunshine and fresh air these were not easy places to stay in. Poet Séan Ó’Ríordáin attended Heatherside as both a public and private patient. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I could quote one of his poem’s but choose instead @CiaraBreatnach’s story of Ó’Ríordáin shouting “F... off, you F...ker” at his Heatherside physician who had refused him early drug treatment. (&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration-line: underline; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mh.bmj.com/content/40/1/11&quot;&gt;https://mh.bmj.com/content/40/1/11&lt;/a&gt; ) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Closed since 2014 (ish) the hospital is now being reclaimed by nature. Cypress and sycamore are self seeding, while moss thickly carpets the veranda floor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;image-640width caption&quot; height=&quot;480&quot; src=&quot;/sites/default/files/styles/640width/public/nodes-images/we-ve-been-here/firstlight73.jpg?itok=hoGFACX7&quot; title=&quot;Closer view of the S facing facade of the hospital block.&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;All of those ‘at risk’ over 60s and 70s that we worry about (#coronavirus) grew up with TB as a part of their lives, within their families/communities.The etiquette of (not) spitting, coughing, using handkerchiefs are what they passed on to us. They have generational knowledge that we need.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;TB was a disease associated with poverty although both rich and poor suffered from it. People are reluctant to share their memories of when TB was common in Ireland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;We wonder now, in the midst of a pandemic (#lockdown) if people will share their TB memories, and see what we can learn from them. What social practices we need to adopt in the coming months? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;If you or friends or family members have TB related stories or memories please consider sharing them using this Google Form &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://forms.gle/Gpgvx1aXnbHrguLZ7&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration-line: underline; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;https://forms.gle/Gpgvx1aXnbHrguLZ7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog category:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog-category/events&quot;&gt;Events&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 10:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;h2 class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Deep knowledge and measuring time in Ballyhoura. Tracing the Peter Robinson Settler’s origins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jeqvQlUIaJU&quot; width=&quot;560&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;What does deep knowledge mean? Local communities have deep knowledge of their heritage. Deep knowledge comes from listening when you&#039;re sitting around the table after a funeral and somebody is talking about what granny said, or what granny’s aunt said. That&#039;s deep knowledge. Local communities have deep knowledge of where families lived and were buried. Of trade and craft, of fate and fortune through time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;The other part of the title is measuring time. How do we measure time in Ireland? Nowadays we measure by looking at our phones but in the past we measured time by counting generations. We measured change by referring to our granddad&#039;s time, or our great grandmother&#039;s time. And that&#039;s what we&#039;re looking at here. Can we go back to that older way of looking at generations? Our primary purpose in doing that is we want to go back 200 years. We want to go back eight generations, to the 1820s in this area, and work out who was living here, where we were living and where we were burying. And our primary drive for that is to investigate the origins of people of the Peter Robinson Assisted Emigration.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;In 1823, and 1825, a whole load of ‘us’ were shipped away across to Canada, the first group went to the Ottawa Valley, then the 1825ers went to Ontario, the Peterborough area in Ontario, and we&#039;re still there. What we&#039;re at is trying to bridge the gap that&#039;s between those of us in Ireland and those of ‘us’ in Ontario. And we&#039;re trying to show that people at a community level have a lot in common with one another, regardless of where we are situated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;In essence we wish to bridge the gap of 200 years and 3,000 miles between Ballyhoura and Ontario.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;As part of the project we&#039;re hoping to tell the stories of the people who lived in these parishes going back to 200 years. Stories of the War of Independence, First World War, after the Great Famine, life here during the Great Famine, life here before the Great Famine, and we want to capture those kind of stories. We aim to work with local historians who&#039;ve been doing this kind of research for the last 30 - 50 years. We want to get out there so we can share with our partners elsewhere in the country and across the water in Canada as well.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Two thousand people were shipped across to Canada back in 1823 and 1825, originating pretty much from Newmarket in Duhallow, all the way down to Lismore in County Waterford. The anniversary of these Assisted Emigrations are coming up in 2023 -2025. And both communities here in Ireland and across in Canada want to commemorate this anniversary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;There were multiple other assisted emigrations during the 19th century. Over 300,000 people left Ireland as part of assisted emigrations (Moran 2013). At 2000 people the Peter Robinson Settlers are a small part of this process but if we can tell their story well, we can publicise the other schemes as well. And if we can make the links across the water with the Peter Robinson families, maybe others of the 300,000 will connect with us too.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;And make no mistake, such Assisted Emigrations were not confined to Ireland but were a common European experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;When we look at our own family histories in Ireland I suspect a lot of us can go quickly&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;back to the 1870s. My own mother talks about her grandfather who was born in 1875 and she recalls stories of his inheriting the family farm. So if we have those links back to the1870s can we push it back further?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;We also aim to understand the Ireland of the 1820s and 1830s, which, it would appear from listening to historians, was a very dynamic period. There was a lot of feuding going on ie. family feuds with faction fights; there was a lot of agrarian unrest, people were fed up with the way their land was being controlled, that they couldn&#039;t own land; and with the taxes that they were being imposed on them.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;And then, as well, there was a famine every generation or so. We remember An Gorta Mór from the late 1840s but there was a famine nearly 20 years before that, nor was that the last famine we had in Ireland.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Our purpose in this project is to combine stories from both sides of the Atlantic ocean, tracing the 2000 people who went out on 11 ships, two ships in the 23 and the other 9 in 1825. Can we also identify the churches, boreens, bridges and homes that would be recognisable to the Peter Robinson Settlers?&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Dr. Paul MacCotter, who&#039;s a medieval historian and genealogist has researched Peter Robinson Settlers and he&#039;s found that 25% of the Peter Robinson families can be found in Irish church records. In a previous analysis Dr MacCotter determined 10% of the Peter Robinson families are traceable to townland level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get Involved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Ballyhoura Development have traced approx 600 different people over in North America, between Canada and the USA, who are direct descendants of those 2000 people. And they&#039;re all over Canada and the States. As part of this project we are hoping to connect with those 600 people and we&#039;re going to ask them to share their stories. And we&#039;re going to plan a series of activities over the coming five years that will hopefully bring us back together. To this end we are looking for participants in Ireland and Canada to email us and connect us with local media sources who can help us reach a broader audience and connect with more Peter Robinson descendants. We’re looking for well researched family histories with locations of homes and graves recorded so that we can trace the families who went, as well as those who stayed behind. Email &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:john@historicgraves.com&quot;&gt;john@historicgraves.com&lt;/a&gt; to find out more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;Acknowledgments&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;This project is organised by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ballyhouradevelopment.com/&quot;&gt;Ballyhoura Development CLG&lt;/a&gt; and is funded by the Leader rural development fund.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;Moran, G. 2013 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2013/sending-out-irelands-poor/&quot;&gt;https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2013/sending-out-irelands-poor/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;For more on deep knowledge, remembrance and forgetting read anything by Prof G Beiner &lt;a href=&quot;https://bgu.academia.edu/GuyBeiner&quot;&gt;https://bgu.academia.edu/GuyBeiner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;For the work of Dr Paul MacCotter &lt;a href=&quot;http://paulmaccotter.com/publications/&quot;&gt;http://paulmaccotter.com/publications/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.pobal.ie/app/uploads/2018/05/leader-logo-300x278.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;p2&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;Blog category:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog-category/places&quot;&gt;Places&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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