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Our Archaeological Company
Bespoke Heritage Solutions
A Digital Legacy
Innovative Design
Access Heritage was created in 2020 to build upon the experiences of its Co-Founders Gavin Donaghy and Cormac Duffy in the Heritage, Community outreach and Archaeology sectors to bring a new range of services to our customers. Digital Heritage has been a slowly growing industry over the past decade and has taken a quantum leap in both technology and in outlets for that information.
This digital revolution enables us to take huge strides in the implementation of new media to provide unique solutions to our clients. In the field of archaeology it means faster excavation and recording in much greater detail from surveying to analysis. In the heritage sector this means the development of 3D Scanning, virtual tours and digital atlas’s to promote and present a digital legacy with a time capsule of a monument or place. Community outreach has never been more interconnected with all of the digital heritage solutions described above being disseminated through new platforms and social media brining more information to communities.
Our team has over 20 years of experience in the Heritage, Archaeology and Community sectors and is up to date in the latest technologies and solutions. Contact us today to see how we can help you.
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Gavin Donaghy
Gavin initially studied as an electronic and computer engineer, he left that career in 2001 and began working on archaeological sites. Gavin worked his way up through the ranks to obtain his first archaeological licence for excavation in 2009. Gavin is a licensed archaeologist with experience in the public and private sector, managing projects from single dwellings to housing developments and large scale infrastructure projects.
Gavin was a company director for IAR (Archaeology NI) where he oversaw community outreach projects and public educational open days. He also managed community outreach projects for The Saint Patrick Centre in Downpatrick, a contract awarded by DFC HED.
In the initial development of drone technology, he built his own aerial surveying systems using the technology regularly from 2011. He has further expanded into virtual systems to record and preserve past landscapes in perpetuity.
He currently holds is certified by the CAA for using drone technology for surveying and digital photography and has carried out large scale drone and conventional surveys.
Gavin is a member of the Institute of Archaeologist of Ireland and currently sits on the board undertaking the role of Membership Secretary.
Cormac Duffy
Cormac Duffy has been working in commercial, research and community archaeology across Ireland and England since graduating in 2005 with a BSc in Archaeology and Palaeoecology, QUB.
He has been a licenced Archaeologist in Northern Ireland since 2013, having monitored and directed on multiple developments from single dwellings to large scale infrastructure projects including windfarms, pipelines and flood alleviation schemes. He has conducted many field surveys for pre-planning assessment including maritime and largescale-landscape projects.
He has an MRes (Masters by Research) in Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, (2015) focusing on maritime archaeology and GIS systems. A landscape and maritime specialist with experience of multiple survey methods including Ground Penetrating Radar, Lidar, GIS and 3d virtual survey and UAV drone survey. He was awarded his PhD in 2020, entitled The Archaeology of the Landscape, Organisation and Economies of Medieval Cistercian Ulster.
He has worked on multiple community heritage research projects and education programs promoting heritage and archaeology for Queens University Belfast and University College London. He also worked as an outreach officer for Irish Archaeological Research, conducting an archaeology in schools’ program which engaged 2500 primary school pupils across Derry and Donegal during the 2013 UK City of Culture celebrations.
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Time Saving practical solutions
Connectivity
building community ties through digital solutions
Virtual Recording
Digital recording through drones, 3d scanning and 360 Camera technology
20
Years Experience in the heritage sector