Brian Callaghan
Moybologue Historical Society

Moybologue 2018 - Using new tricks to tell an old story

Following on from the successful geophysical and grave-marker mapping and inscription surveys in 2017, 2018 was another busy year for Moybologue Historical Society. Resulting from funding secured through the Heritage Council Community Grant Scheme, the society undertook a cross-border joint 3D photogrammetry workshop, delivered by Gary Dempsey of Digital Heritage Age, with Drumgath Ladies Group, who are working to record and preserve an early graveyard site at Drumgath, near Rathfrilland, Co. Down. This talk will present some of the more remarkable outputs of this workshop, including some previously undiscovered and unreadable inscriptions at Moybologue. The talk will also detail a project commissioned by the society to re-imagine and digitally re-construct for a modern audience the Church building as it looked at the height of its use during the late middle-ages, based on information and data in sources such as the results of the geophys surveys, current and historic photographs of the site, drone aerial photographs, historic maps as well as published and non-published historical, antiquarian and archaeological articles and reports on the site.

Brian Callaghan is from Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, and is a founding member and current secretary of Moybologue Historical Society. Brian is a graduate of Maynooth University (B.A., 2004) and Trinity College Dublin (MPhil, 2006) and is also a member of Bailieborough Heritage Society and Breifne Historical Society. Brian's research interests are local medieval and ecclesiastical history and archaeology, the Sheridan family of Quilca House and piecing together his own family history.