New study gives Kilkenny community 'grave' detail on their area

Silence greeted every word of Paddy O’Shea’s presentation of his Gravestones study of Tullahought graveyard in the Community Centre on Friday evening. It occurred as Paddy went in minute detail through every single grave marker to be seen there.

The photographic and digitally enhanced presentation with their GPS co-ordinates showed every single mark clearly to everyone present for the very first time in history. Using an amazing self-taught and developed methods to assist the identification and presentation, Paddy displayed every single letter and syllable bar a single handful going back hundreds of years.

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The details exposed the difference of the format, style, layout and of how names and spellings changed. It listed family names and connections that are long gone and it has created a community interest to record over the winter months, the homesteads of yore for visitors and to assist those researching family trees.

To date Paddy has carried out the slow methodical identification involving thousands of hours on nine cemeteries in the area. Accompanied on the night by his daughter Orla, it is a presentation to be seen for the identification process alone.