John Tierney's blog

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.

QR codes are square barcodes which when scanned with a smartphone open a webpage.

This blog post is one of a series about people who have been working in historic graveyard research in Ireland. Previously we wrote about Dr.

We have over 10,000 grave memorials recorded in the last year and we have to move servers very soon as we are topping 30GB of online data.

Following yesterdays storm we started work in Abington graveyard this morning. We are training members of  the Murroe community (http://www.murroe.net/) to survey and record their historic graveyards as part of the Ballyhoura Historic Graves Project (http://visitballyhoura.com/index.php/home/) funded by LEADER. About a month ago we worked together in Clonkeen (http://historicgraves.ie/graveyard/clonkeen/li-clkn) graveyard and now we have reached the flagship graveyard of Abington (http://historicgraves.ie/graveyard/abington/li-abgn).

Earlier this year we met Dr. Jane Lyons of www.from-ireland.net one of the most valuable sources of Irish genealogical data on the internet. Dr.

Grave plots are generally three feet wide and six feet long. Most grave plots are arranged in rows. The very first thing when recording an historic graveyard is to identify the row arrangements.