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Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures

Ellen Hutchins Festival 21/08/2017 Breda Moriarty

Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures

• Research Aims and Study Area
• Historical and Cultural Research
• Scientific Priorities
• Project Dissemination and Preservation

Study Area: West Cork Coast

Research Aims

1. Develop a methodology for the inter-relationship of cultural and biological knowledge that can be scaled for other maritime environments 2. Connect the priorities of scientific research to contemporary understandings of coastal environments via an exploration of the cultural history of selected sites in the context

• f stakeholder workshops

3. Develop a website that depicts the combined cultural and environmental richness of selected coastal sites

The Research Team

• Prof. Claire Connolly

School of English

• Dr. Rob McAllen

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Dr. Michael Waldron

English / History of Art

Orla-Peach Power

Digital Humanities / Archaeology

Breda Moriarty

Ecology / Rural Development

• Dr. Rachel Murphy

Digital Humanities / History

Seán MacGabhann

Marine Biology

College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

Research Model

Fisheries and Aquaculture Pollution Climate Change Biodiversity/Conservation Policy and Legislation Bantry Baltimore Lough Hyne Clonakilty Biological/scientific: e.g. current and past priorities PLACE THEME/PRIORITY DATA West Cork 1700 1920 TIME Historical: e.g. official data, personal accounts Cultural: e.g. art, literature, folklore Stakeholder: e.g. from surveys and workshops Present Day

Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures

• Research Aims and Study Area
• Historical and Cultural Research
• Scientific Priorities
• Project Dissemination and Preservation

Historical Sources: Maps

All maps reproduced with kind permission of the National Library of Ireland

Plan du Fort et Baye de Bantry, Goubet, negative, (c.1690-5), NLI MS 2742 Plan of Bantry Bay, G. Pawley, May 1808 NLI 15 B. 14 (32) French Military Reconnaissance Map, 1789, NLI MS 809

Historical Sources: Maps

Source: Bantry House Papers, BL EP B 2120 Source: Bantry House Papers, BL EP B 2124 Source: Bantry House Papers, BL EP B 2159

OS map ‘Ireland – West Coast Harbours in Bantry Bay’ detail of Bantry Harbour, scale 1:10,580, 1914 25" OS map ‘Bantry Union and RD Cork (Bantry West Carbery)’, 1920 6" OS map of C. Cork, undated but thought to be based on 1842 survey

Historical Sources: Contemporary Accounts

Charles Smith The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (1750)

• Rev. Horatio

Townsend Statistical Survey of the County of Cork (1810)

Smith’s Map of County Cork, 1850, via Corkpastandpresent.ie

Richard Pococke, 1758

Richard Pococke in Oriental Costume, 1738, Jean-Étienne Liotard

Historical Sources: Estate Papers

Bantry Estate Collection (UCC Library) including maps, legal papers, fisheries and shooting leases, correspondences, sketchbooks, and other materials

Bantry Estate Collection at UCC

Historical Sources: Newspapers and Directories

Pigot’s Directory, 1824 Advertisement placed in Cork Constitution, 12 April 1851

Historical Sources: Official Records

Reports and Commissions e.g. Annual Reports of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries

Source: British Parliamentary Publications and British Parliamentary Papers

Census Reports

Source: HISTPOP

Cultural Sources: Visual Art

William Magrath, Gathering Kelp 1877 (courtesy Crawford Art Gallery, Cork) Joshua Rowley Watson Nelson’s Monument, Castletownshend c.1815 (courtesy Crawford Art Gallery, Cork) View of Allihies Mines Sketchbook of Richard White c.1820s/30s (courtesy UCC Library) James Gillray, The End of the Irish Invasion –

• r – the Destruction of the French Armada

1797

Cultural Sources: Literature

Cultural Sources: Folklore

‘Sea-horses’ in Bantry Bay, referred to in The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281 (Bantry School)

Cultural Sources: Travellers’ Accounts

Georgiana Chatterton Rambles in the South of Ireland in the Year 1838 (1839) Mrs & Mrs Samuel Carter Hall Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, etc. Vol I (1841) Clodagh Leigh-White Nature Notebook (1913-18)

Cultural Sources: Travellers’ Accounts

Lewis Dillwyn (botanist and conchologist) Joseph Woods (botanist)

Taylor and Skinner’s Road Maps 1778

Cork Bandon Clonakilty Ross Skibbereen Baltimore

Anne Plumptre

The Halls

Illustration by W. Willes Engraving by Landells

Historical Sources: Photographs

The Pier, Bantry, Co. Cork

Both images sourced from the Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland

Lough Hyne, Co. Cork

Poetry

Extract from Loch Ina, published in The Nation, 1845 Poem by ‘Stella’, published in The Skibbereen and West Carbery Eagle, 1865 Poem by ‘M.Q.M.’, published in the West Cork and Carbery Eagle, 1868

Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures

• Research Aims and Study Area
• Historical and Cultural Research
• Scientific Priorities
• Project Dissemination and Preservation

Timeline of Scientific Investigation of Lough Hyne 1847 - present

Lough Hyne - current state

• Europe's first statutory Marine Nature Reserve (since 1981)
• The Lough sustains a huge variety of marine plants and animals
• Important on an international scale

Environmental Issues at the Lough

Biodiversity Loss and Changes Eutrophication Invasive Species

Deep Maps surveys and their role

• What are the perceptions of stakeholders with regard to marine issues?
• How is information about marine priorities being transferred to stakeholders?
• Does more need to be done for outreach and dissemination of information?
• Can these perceptions be linked to the heritage and culture that may have contributed to

forging them?

Methodology

• Questionnaires
• Workshops
• In person interviews

Questionnaire 1

Baseline: stakeholders’ familiarity, how informed and concerned about marine issues and policies Issues:

• Biodiversity loss, climate change, coastal erosion,

drilling oil/gas, ecotourism, habitat alteration/destruction, invasive species, marine pollution, marine traffic, eutrophication, ocean acidification, overfishing/depletion of stocks, sea level rise

Informed vs. Concerned

Issues Informed and concerned: climate change, over fishing/depletion of stocks and marine litter Informed and Concerned: biodiversity loss and ocean acidification (decrease in pH levels) Policies There was little or no familiarity with regard to environmental legislation

Questionnaire 2

Value of the coast/sea e.g. sense of identity, plants and animals, source of income, inspiration, natural asset… Where do people get their information about the marine environment? e.g. scientific journals, local or oral tradition, TV, radio, school, magazines…

Value and Information

Valued most: Scenery, recreation and as a natural asset Valued least: Built heritage, source of income and as a source of food Most Information: National/local newspapers, TV, first-hand (personal experience), internet Least Information: Governmental reports, school, scientific reports, environmental organisations

Workshop

Marine environment

• What is the benefit/importance of the marine environment?
• What are the concerns for the marine environment?

Marine Conservation: Policies and role of scientific outreach

• Scientific outreach (for example; workshops, public talks,

conferences, lectures, dedicated events...) - what is their role in dissemination of marine environmental information and can knowledge of the past help inform understanding of current priorities?

Workshop

Present linking to the past

• What role has culture/heritage played in your

perceptions about the marine environment?

• Has the coastal (coast and sea) area changed in your

lifetime? (Biologically, anecdotally...)

Results

• Economic, scenery, recreation, and natural capital
• Pollution, overfishing, climate change, and weak

governance of the coast

• Disconnect between governance and what is

happening on the ground

• Public consultation was deemed necessary in order to

affect real change

• Appropriate communication techniques – this might

be addressed by the website?

Results

• Decrease in population of rural maritime areas and

the loss of fishing traditions

• Deeper knowledge of the history and traditions of

coastal locations might help us to appreciate the ‘magic’ of special coastal places

Primary Schools

Liked most about coast/sea: Wildlife, recreation, and the water, pretending to be a mermaid Problems with the coast/sea: Pollution (litter, plastic,…) safety on the sea, and climate change

Results

Results

Results

In-person interviews

Engage with stakeholders about the study area with regard to marine environmental issues and maritime culture.

Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures

• Research Aims and Study Area
• Historical and Cultural Research
• Scientific Priorities
• Project Dissemination and Preservation

Tools and Technologies

• Timelines – Timeline JS
• Storymaps – Storymap JS, Odyssey JS
• GIS – ArcGIS, QGIS, GoogleMaps, Mapbox
• Archives – Omeka, WordPress, Drupal
• Other - Storify

Visualisation #1

Visualisation # 2

Research Data Management and Preservation

Research Data Management

• Team data is on a SharePoint site
• Project assets will be organised according

to records management best practice

• Project bibliography will be stored in

EndNote Preservation

• We are currently putting a preservation

plan into place

• Unique content created by the project

will be preserved in the Digital Repository

• f Ireland
• Website will be recorded using the

Internet Archive

Dissemination: Social Media

@deepmapscork facebook.com/deepmapscork/

Dissemination: West Cork Community

West Cork College course, Jan-Apr 2017 Spring Watch: West Cork, Breda Moriarty National Heritage Week, Aug 2016 Touch Tanks, Lough Hyne Project Postcards

Research Trips

Glucksman Exhibition

Thank you!