Each artefact is created using a different combination of sources. The role of every document is different as they each act as a fragment of information about The Stone Cottage. The documents are initially categorised into place, memory and writing, accompanied by a preamble which instructs how to the archive is to be used. The contents of the archive are listed below:
Preamble:
An t-Eadar-theangair
Addressing An t-Eadar-theangair (The Interpreter) with instructions on how to use the archive.
Place:
The Building Returns to the Land
Publication using tracing paper to layer the image-degradation investigations from week two of Positions through Iterating.
Traditional West Ireland Cottage Typologies
Diagrams and captions from Aalen, F. H. A. (1966) ‘The Evolution of the Traditional House in Western Ireland’, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 96 (1), pp. 47–58.
Fragments of Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Sligo Sheet 11
Collage overlaying fragments of different historical and contemporary maps to show the position of The Stone Cottage in relation to Easkey.
Memory:
Timeline: 4000BC – 2026
Mapping a timeline of events of the history, and historiography, of The Stone Cottage.
1821 Census: Finid (Finned) Townland
Census content from Virtual Record, Treasure of Ireland (no date) 1821 Census: Finid (Finned) townland. Available at: https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CEN-1821-4-44-7-3-Finid (Accessed: 6 May 2026).
Evanescent Traces
Collage using Positions through Iterating experiment overlayed with Aalen’s (1966) diagram of traditional cottage typologies in Western Ireland.
Writing:
Palimpsest Glossary
Key terms relating to palimpsest highlighted from textual sources in the dataset used to create the archive.
And of My Writing
Refined line of enquiry text, accompanied by four short quotes centred around the theme of writing as a form of palimpsest.
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