A number of local authorities in Dublin, Kilkenny and Cork have combined to organise an Historic Graveyards Roadshow which will commence in March 2012.
On an unseasonably mild Saturday morning I took a spin down to the early Christian monastic site of Kilmacduagh located just west of Gort in south Co. Galway. It has one of the finest collections of churches in Ireland along with a remarkably well preserved round tower.
A quite valley in the rolling hills of Westmeath north of Mullingar contains the small village of Fore.
The excavation of the probable famine era burials associated with the Tuam workhouse on the Atherny Road in Toberjarlath on the south eastern outskirts of Tuam is still progessin
The team at Ignite Dublin have begun to upload the videos of the talks from their eighth ignite adventure in December. It was a great night and I was delighted to have been involved and been given the opportunity to extol the virtues of the Historic Graves Project.
Eachtra are currently in the process of excavating a number of human remains in Toberjarlath townland on the eastern edges of Tuam, in Co. Galway.
The Historic Graves project would like to mark the first year of our blog by highlighting the five most accessed posts from 2011. Thanks for reading and we hope you will continue to enjoy the posts during 2012.
Work is presently ongoing in Tuam on a new road which links Shop Street and Bishops Street and runs along the banks of the River Nanny. Prior to construction of the road we got the chance to excavate the subsurface remains of what is known as Garvey’s Mill.
IntroductionSt James’ Church and cemetery in the eastern Galway suburb of Merview was the subject of a survey and excavation
