John Tierney's blog

This is the script of a talk given by John Tierney on Sunday 6th July 2025 , in Douro village, Ontario as part of the Douro 200th Anniversary of the Peter Robinson Settement which brought around 500 Irish families from southern Ireland to northern Ontario. Those families put down deep roots in the area while also spreading across the rest of the continent. John was invited by the Douro 200th Anniversary committee to attend, survey their local cemeteries, and give this talk.

Introduction

Working notes

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uCkawFWGAaVNtnNb1ucV7Bv5bvC0011f...

2023

ardmore2023toura7finalweblinks.pdf

A pocket sized trail for eight points of interest (POI) in Ardmore roundtower graveyard developed as part of the Incultum project with Ardmore Tidy Towns.

2024 Version

Digital_Gyard_V9_A7_Ardmore_74by105_July2024.pdf

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.

It’s not that we haven’t been here (Covid-19 pandemic )before. It’s just that we’ve locked away the memories.

Deep knowledge and measuring time in Ballyhoura. Tracing the Peter Robinson Settler’s origins.