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St James’ Church and cemetery in the eastern Galway suburb of Merview was the subject of a survey and excavation

While in Charlie Byrnes Bookshop in Galway last Saturday I picked up a copy of Clonbern Graveyard Its Monuments and People, a book recently published by the

We recently spent a wonderful Saturday giving one of our survey workshops in Kill graveyard in the townland of Drumhurt just south west of Cootehill in Co. Cavan.

The inaugural Annual Galway Conference – The Place of Their Resurrection: cemeteries and funerary monuments their past and future – was held last Saturday, the 15th October, in the Harbour Hotel in Galway.

This technique involves using sheets of newsprint, an ordinary kitchen sponge and sheets of carbon paper. Our friend Gerry Mullens taught us this technique and he got it from Dr Elizabeth Shee Twohig, a specialist in prehistoric rock art.

The Survey and Publication Process

Introduction

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Eachtra have been monitoring excavations in Tuam associated with a new water supply scheme.

Introduction

Eachtra have been monitoring works associated with the Tuam water supply scheme for the past year.

On a recent field survey in the midlands one of the trainees remarked 'There are more people in graveyards now than are attending mass!'.