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.
There was great turnout in the fabulously appointed James O’Keefe Institute in Newmarket, Co.
Shane Lehane reflects on the exhibition and story telling night held in the James O'Keeffe institute in Newmarket Co.
The Historic Graves Project have had a very busy and exciting 2012 working with rural and urban communities to record their historic graveyards.
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.
