Tourism has been
and is a large part of the Irish economy.
The growing interest in genealogy has proven a boon to that industry,
with “heritage tourism” alone reaping over 1 billion euros each year for Ireland. The benefits of encouraging genealogists
stateside and around the world to visit the homeland of their ancestors are
finally being recognized on the island. One
manifestation of that realization is Ireland
Reaching Out, which attempts to connect the Irish diaspora with people currently
living in their ancestral communities.
Another is a project called Historic Graves, an initiative to record historic
(naturally) graveyards in Ireland. http://historicgraves.com/
At this site you
will find beautiful aerial photos of the graveyards and churches along with pictures
of the stones up close and stories about some of the people buried there. On the home page are tabs for EXPLORE, with a
list of graveyards, stories, maps and a blog- SEARCH tab is self explanatory-
ENGAGE invites you to participate in the project and finally there is an ABOUT
tab describing the project and its goals.
Cork, Limerick,
Waterford and Tipperary graveyards are well represented and there are other
counties just getting started with the recording and transcribing. This is an ongoing project and worth checking
out and bookmarking.
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