Next lecture of this Winter Lecture Series, curated by Julian Walton has guest Speaker John Tierney.

The lecture, with title “Gravestones of West Waterford: Historical Documents Carved in Stone” will be taking place at Dunhill Multi-Education Centre on Wednesday the 21st of January at 19h30. The lecture is followed by a short Questions & Answers session.

“Waterford graveyards have been a testing ground for us for many of our methods and ideas and this talk will cover some of our current thinking on the historical value of gravestones as documents carved in stone.”

John Tierney, field archaeologist has been working in graveyard surveys since 2010 and runs the web platform
www.historicgraves.com
where almost 1000 community led surveys have been published. Waterford graveyards have been a testing ground for us for many of our methods and ideas and this talk will cover some of our current thinking on the historical value of gravestones as documents carved in stone