Oct
24
2024
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Sep
06
2024
Jan
31
2024
Ardmore Graveyard Trail
By John Tierney
A pocket sized trail for eight points of interest (POI) in Ardmore roundtower graveyard.
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Apr
17
2023
Surveying Inniscarra graveyard, Cork
By John Tierney
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.
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Apr
07
2023
Monster Graves and the Incultum Project
By John Tierney
How has the Incultum (incultum.eu) heritage tourism research project (Horizon 2020) influenced our understanding of the archaeology of 19th & 20th century institutional burial practices in Ireland?
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.
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Jun
08
2022
Sep
10
2020
Community Archaeology in a time of Covid-19 - the Heritage Council Community Archaeology Fund 2020
By John Tierney
For the first time in two years the Heritage Council have a Community Heritage Grant Scheme (https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/news/news-features/rebuilding-heritage-co...) 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.
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Mar
22
2020
We've been here before.
By John Tierney
It’s not that we haven’t been here (Covid-19 pandemic )before. It’s just that we’ve locked away the memories.
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Mar
05
2020
Bridging 200 years and 3000 miles from Ballyhoura to Ontario
By John Tierney
Deep knowledge and measuring time in Ballyhoura. Tracing the Peter Robinson Settler’s origins.
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Jan
23
2019
Lack of support by politicians for local community based heritage projects in 2019
By John Tierney
It would appear that there will be no Heritage Council community grants in 2019 (https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/news/news-features/working-with-communiti...).
This isn't good enough as local communities throughout Ireland now have no specific heritage funding source. Faic, mar a deirfá!
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