Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️‍🌈

Next week (11th-14th August), we're running library workshops across County Limerick. Join us to discover how you can get involved in saving local heritage!

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Looking forward to seeing this #OS200 publication in the flesh in a few days time! With thanks to our wonderful @irelandmapped.bsky.social project colleagues and our partners @rialibrary.bsky.social for permitting the use of their stunning #OS collections @ulresearch.bsky.social #LoveIrishResearch

Benchmarks chiselled onto grey stone. The benchmark includes an upward pointing 'broad arrow' topped by a horizontal line cut known as the 'bench'.

"Benchmarks are now recognised as remarkable feats of scientific engineering that helped shape our understanding of Ireland's terrain"

In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Catherine Porter & Margaret O'Sullivan share the story behind benchmarks

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

#StayCurious @ulgeog.bsky.social

Courtesy of @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social some lunch time reading for you on #OS bench marks from our @heritagecouncil.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social co-funded project, 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'

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Looking for a free outdoor activity with the kids this weekend? Why not try out the 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' project app and do some bench mark hunting!
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Go Margaret @mudderofpearl.bsky.social @ulgeog.bsky.social!

If you want to find out more about 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' and how you can get involved in the hunt, please check out our website shorturl.at/eVTWk

Great to see this out in the world! If you like to mix weather with GIS and sentiment analysis then please have a read @irelandmapped.bsky.social

Really bad!

Perfect weekend weather for OS bench mark hunting in County Down ❤️

Listen again to @mudderofpearl.bsky.social chatting to Joe Nash on Live 95FM about our project to search out Ordnance Survey benchmarks in County Limerick and how you can get involved @ulresearch.bsky.social @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social

A photo of a large old piece of masonry with markings and faded writing on it, with a body of water in the background

Researchers at UL are calling on the local community to get involved in a project aimed at locating and recording an important Irish heritage relic via a newly launched app.

Read on: www.ul.ie/news/new-ul-...

#StudyatUL #StayCurious

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Thanks to everyone who supported our launch event today for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. If you missed it, you can catch up here: shorturl.at/IBk0m

Scan the QR code below to access the project website and mobile app to start collecting bench marks in County Limerick!

Reminder to register for tomorrow’s lunch time launch of Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage.

It’s FREE online and open to all! Register here: ul.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

Don't forget to register for the online project launch event this Friday (June 27th), where you can hear how you, your friends and family can get involved in the project!

You can register for the event here: ul.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

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We are pleased to advertise for a full-time, 2 year fixed term Associate Teacher in Geography with the School of History and Geography, @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Deadline: 12 noon, 4th July, 2025.

Search the UL job vacancies at shorturl.at/dghws for further details.

#JobFairy #AcademicJobs

Register below for the online launch of this fascinating project to locate and photograph the remaining bench marks in County Limerick. All welcome to get involved!

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@dri.ie @tailteeireann.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social

We are pleased to share details of the Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage launch event at 1-2 pm on Friday, 27th June 2025.

The event is FREE and will be held online via MS Teams. All are welcome!

Please register for the event here: ul.libcal.com/calendar/eve...
Or, the QR code below

Societies & groups for historians, UK and Ireland Join the conversation

Our event today with heads of selected UK #History societies is a reminder of the dedication, expertise, civic sense, dynamism and, yes, value of these subject societies.

If you'd like to keep in touch with them, we've a Starter Pack bit.ly/4jKumCE which now lists 125 such groups #Skystorians 1/2

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Delighted to announce that the 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' community collection app and website are coming soon.

Details of the launch event at the end of June will be released shortly!

Why not check out our Professional Diploma in Climate Adaptation and Sustainability with Springboard places available

New research aims to preserve 'important heritage relic' in Limerick A NEW project by a UL researcher aims to locate, record and move towards the preservation of an 'important heritage relic.'

Thanks to the #LimerickPost for sharing information about our @heritagecouncil.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social funded project: www.limerickpost.ie/2025/06/05/n...

This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved

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Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, Associate Professor in the School of History and Geography. She is seated in a room with mint green walls. She has long brown hair and is wearing glasses. She is wearing a black top, green blazer and silver necklace.

In Legacy on RTÉ 1, UL's Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam from the School of History & Geography speaks about the Bryce family whose creative spirit transformed Garinish Island from a bleak, windswept, rocky outcrop to a unique horticultural & architectural gem

Watch: www.rte.ie/player/serie...

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National Committee Announced

https://dariah.ie/wordpress/2025/05/national-committee-announced/

Currently working on a paper related to the portrayal of Ireland's Ordnance Survey in the nineteenth century news media. In today's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk we see the #GSNI advertising their summer field work, reminiscent of some OS entries almost 200 years ago

It’s gone on the later edition map. A slightly higher one was cut on the plot boundary wall next to the road

Sometimes they are on the floor stone at the entrance. Such as my profile picture