John Tierney's blog

Presented to the IGRS AGM in London in May 2013.

For the last two months we have been working with community groups throughout South and East Cork with

Dick Eastman is intrigued by the possibility of using dowsing to find forgotten graves. Reading his post I am reminded of a colleague telling me they used dowsing to layout a trench in an historic graveyard excavation in Wales. They needed to avoid a buried foundation and used dowsing to detect, mark and avoid the foundations.

A short video showing how to signup and become a member of the Historic Graves website and project.

Under the shadow of the Knockmealdowns Tony & Mark took to the recording of the graveyards of south Tipperary like ducks to water. Mark is a geographer and Tony a retired builder so they both had a strong spatial sense and a tidy approach to dealing with paperwork.

As we work with community groups around the country one of our main aims to track the different stonecutters who have worked in Ireland.

As we record grave memorials throughout the country we come across the names of the stonecarvers and cutters who made them. Sometimes a signature (in full or initials) is found below the upper carvings and sometimes at the base of the stone.

QR codes are square barcodes which when scanned with a smartphone open a webpage.

This blog post is one of a series about people who have been working in historic graveyard research in Ireland. Previously we wrote about Dr.