I have been working for years on creating a multi-layered digital map of Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, in the west of Ireland. The project forms part of my research and teaching at Sacred Heart University in Dingle, where I lecture in Irish Studies.
This ongoing and open-ended study examines the physical and cultural environment of the region, and so far covers a diversity of subjects, such as megalithic tombs, holy wells, feature film locations, and humpback whale sightings. The data for these maps was created in partnership with a number of different partner groups and institutions.
“The Dingle peninsula can be considered an outdoor museum, with its Bronze Age tombs, medieval chapels, oratories and monasteries, and old stone cottages, as well as spectacular mountains, hills, ocean coves and cliffs. Yet in an ever-changing environment, preservation and sustainability are key to its future, and this can only come from a deeper knowledge of all that it contains.
This new project, Chorca Dhuibhne / Deep Mapping / Dingle Peninsula, uses the term ‘deep mapping’ as a guiding methodology. The new methodology is one of the newest approaches in environmental humanities that seeks to understand the totality of human cultural heritage as rooted in a place.”
-John Roney, Professor Emeritus in History, SHU.
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