PROPOSED DIGITAL ARTIFACT

Knockraha War Of Independence Heritage

Trail

Proposed by:

Lorraine Leahy

PENNY JOHNSTON : NORTH & SOUTH MAIN STREETS.

Oral History Project: “The

overall effect is textured &

multidimensional narrative of

Cork City that highlights local

experience.

Walk 1916: Walking Tour App of the events of 1916.

Overlay snippets of historical images & audio narrative about the sites.

“Maps situate our stories, tie them to specific places, and are among the

most useful tools to aid in our ability to understand the world around us.”

Paul McCoy (StoryMapper: A case study in a map based oral history)

Sing Sing Prison

Kilquane Cemetery

Knockraha

Gogginstown.

Entrance to Sing Sing

Prison.

“LIBERTY HALL”

In 1917 the Knockraha Company of Irish Volunteers was founded in this building by Martin Corry.

Martin Corry TD commemorated in

2001.

THE HOUSE AND FORGE OF

EDWARD MOLONEY, GOVERNOR OF

‘SING SING’ PRISON

The schoolhouse, where Sinn Fein

Courts were held during the War of

Independence

O’Donoghue’s Pub, Knockraha,

where I.R.A. members went

following the Clonmult Ambush

Drawing of Bomb Factory, Ballynanelagh Townland, Knockraha. (W.

Fitzgerald).

THE IDEA BEHIND THE BOMB

FACTORY, BY “NED FITZ” ENGINEER

Ned Fitz was an

Engineering student

at UCC in 1920

Ned Fitzgerald

designed & built the

Bomb Factory in

Ballynanelagh

In 1956 he detailed

all his designs &

plans. These are 3

pages of his writings.

BALLYNANELLAGH BOMB FACTORY DAY AFTER

TRUCE JULY 12TH 1921.

Photo taken by Ned Fitz, Company Engineer. Infront can be seen

the Chills, The Ladles, the main Grenades and other equipment.

CUMANN NA MBAN, KNOCKRAHA.

HISTORY OF ACTIVE CUMMANN NA

MBAN BRANCH IN KNOCKRAHA,

JUST A FEW LINES!

HOW DO I PROPOSE TO

BUILD THE DIGITAL

ARTIFACT?

Getting Started: Chapter 2

• The basic technologies

behind the web.

• How to match appropriate &

properly scaled technologies

to your project.

• How to produce and serve

digital text, images, and

multimedia.

• Hosts for your website.

HOW DO I PROPOSE TO DO IT?

OMEKA

NEATLINE

www.pennyjohnston.

org

For Audio & Video THE DIGITISATION

PROCESS by Róisín

O'Brien

BUTTEVANT HERITAGE TRAIL

Audio Guide: Stories of the town written by the local community.

KNOCKRAHA WAR OF

INDEPENDENCE TRAIL

• Liberty Hall

• Rd to Grenade Factory,

Assembly area to Transport

arm from “The Uponer”

• Bomb Factory at

Ballinanelagh

• Mike Canavan’s Pub

• IRA Court House

• Sing Sing Prison in ancient

Monastic settlement.

• The Rea (Execution & burial

site)

• Ned Moloney’s Forge.

Governor of Sing Sing

Prison

• Arms dump in church.