A key figure in preservation and recording of Ogham inscriptions
One of Co Kerry’s earliest and finest antiquarians, Richard Hitchcock, who was born 200 years ago on April 6th, is probably little remembered now. In fact, it seems he was largely forgotten within so short a period as 20 years after his death.
The young Hitchcock was a bright child and Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan, a local Church of Ireland curate, who was also an antiquarian and archaeologist, encouraged his interest in geology and archaeology. He made his library available to the boy, who read books on Irish history and antiquity enthusiastically. Hitchcock also learned drawing from an engineer who was working on the building of the Tralee Ship Canal and he developed an ability to do architectural drawings accurately.
Through Graves’s connection with the head of Trinity College Dublin library, Hitchcock was given a position as library clerk there and also became an assistant to the Geological Society of Ireland. He moved to Dublin in 1848, where he had library resources and scholarly advice not available in Kerry.
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