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Biography

Dr Ronan Hennessy is a Senior Technical Officer in the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences at UCC.

Ronan is a geoscientist, and works in the field of GIS and geoheritage. Ronan has worked on research projects with EU Commission, national, local government and commercial sector organisations, as well as Irish, European and North American universities. His publications include a variety of research domains including geoheritage, landscape archaeology, educational multimedia, Irish language planning, environmental planning policy, landscape character assessments, geotourism, public health, and mining heritage.‍

Research Interests

1. Geospatial Technologies for Education
   
2. Open Source Applications in Teaching and Learning
   
3. Geo-environmental and Ecological mapping
   
4. Geoheritage
5. Landscape Character Assessment
   

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Publications

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Books

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	Leitrim’s Geological Heritage: An Exploration of the Geology of County Leitrim. Ronan Hennessy, Robbie Meehan, Vincent Gallagher and Matthew Parkes (2022) Leitrim’s Geological Heritage: An Exploration of the Geology of County Leitrim. Leitrim: Leitrim County Council.   [Details]
	(2019)	Reading the Rocks - Exploring Mayo's Geological Heritage. Ronan Hennessy, Martin Feely (2019) Reading the Rocks - Exploring Mayo's Geological Heritage. Castlebar: Mayo County Council. [Details]
	(2010)	Galway's Living Landscapes: Eskers Pt. 1. Hennessy, R., Feely,M., Cunniffe,C. & Carlin,C. (2010) Galway's Living Landscapes: Eskers Pt. 1. Galway: Galway County Council. [Details]

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	'A decline in badger (Meles meles) territories on Great Island, Cork Harbour, observed during two time periods over twenty years (1995-1996 and 2016-2017)' Sleeman, D.P., Hennessy, R., Dorman, J.A., Lane, G., Smiddy, P (2021) 'A decline in badger (Meles meles) territories on Great Island, Cork Harbour, observed during two time periods over twenty years (1995-1996 and 2016-2017)'. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 37 (2):162-168   [Details]
	(2017)	'Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland' Elizabeth FitzPatrick and Ronan Hennessy (2017) 'Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland'. 38 (2):29-62   [DOI] [Details]
	(2013)	'Exploratory Spatial Mapping of the Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in E. coli in the Community' Galvin S;Bergin N;Hennessy R;Hanahoe B;Murphy AW;Cormican M;Vellinga A; (2013) 'Exploratory Spatial Mapping of the Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in E. coli in the Community'. Antibiotics-Basel, 2 (3) [DOI] [Details]

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Published Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	Definition and Classification of Ireland’s Seascapes. Ruth Minogue, Karen Foley, Tracy Collins, Ronan Hennessy, Pat Doherty, Eilis Vaughan, and Deirdre Black (2020) Definition and Classification of Ireland’s Seascapes. Marine Institute, Galway.   [Full Text] [Details]

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Unpublished Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	The Geological Heritage of County Leitrim. An audit of County Geological Sites in Leitrim. Matthew Parkes, Robert Meehan, Vincent Gallagher, Ronan Hennessy (2020) The Geological Heritage of County Leitrim. An audit of County Geological Sites in Leitrim. Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin: Unpublished Reports   [Details]
	(2019)	The Geological Heritage of County Mayo. An Audit of County Geological Sites in County Mayo. Hennessy, R., Feely, M., Parkes, M., Gatley, S. (2019) The Geological Heritage of County Mayo. An Audit of County Geological Sites in County Mayo. Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin: Unpublished Reports   [Details]
	(2019)	The Geological Heritage of County Tipperary. An audit of County Geological Sites in County Tipperary. Gallagher V., Meehan, R., Parkes, M., Hennessy R. & Power, S. (2019) The Geological Heritage of County Tipperary. An audit of County Geological Sites in County Tipperary. Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin: Unpublished Reports   [Details]
	(2019)	The Geological Heritage of County Galway. An Audit of County Geological Sites in County Galway. Meehan, R., Gallagher, V., Hennessy, R., Parkes, M. & Gatley, S. (2019) The Geological Heritage of County Galway. An Audit of County Geological Sites in County Galway. Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin: Unpublished Reports [Details]

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Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2012)	'Google Earth geo-education resources: A transnational approach from Ireland, Iceland, Finland, and Norway' Ronan Hennessy, Thorvardur Arnason, Ilkka Ratinen, Lena Rubensdotter (2012) 'Google Earth geo-education resources: A transnational approach from Ireland, Iceland, Finland, and Norway' In: Steven J. Whitmeyer, John E. Bailey, Declan G. De Paor, Tina Ornduff (eds). Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research: Special Paper of the Geological Society of America 492. Boulder, CO, USA: Geological Society of America.   [DOI] [Details]

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Other Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	'Decoding Finn Mac Cumaill’s places' FitzPatrick, E., Hennessy, R., Naessens, P., Nagy, J. (2015) 'Decoding Finn Mac Cumaill’s places' Archaeology Ireland, 29 (3) :26-31. [Details]

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Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Matthew Parkes, Robbie Meehan, Ronan Hennessy, Vincent Gallagher, Sarah Gatley (2019) Geoconservation of Quaternary sites and landforms in the Republic of Ireland 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Convention Centre, Museum of Ireland, Dublin, , 25-JUL-19 - 31-JUL-19 [Details]
	(2018)	Geological Society Geoconservation Annual Gathering: Geoconservation in Ireland Ronan Hennessy, Robbie Meehan (2018) Eskers and Drumlins, Iconic Ice Age Landforms – How do we define boundaries? Geological Society Geoconservation Annual Gathering: Geoconservation in Ireland National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, , 19-NOV-18 - 19-NOV-19 [Details]
	(2017)	GeoLab: Shared Digital Learning Resources for Petrology Hennessy, R & Meere, P. (2017) A presentation on the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education-funded GeoLab project GeoLab: Shared Digital Learning Resources for Petrology Geological Society of London, London, [Details]
	(2011)	10th European Geoparks Conference Hennessy, R., O’Connor, P.J. and Gleeson, C. (2011) The NEED Project – an innovative educational initiative in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark, West of Ireland . In: Kristin Rangnes eds. 10th European Geoparks Conference Langesund, Norway, , 16-SEP-11 - 20-SEP-11   [Details]
	(2017)	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 Hennessy, R.; Meere, P.; Ho, T.; Menuge, J.; Tyrrell, S.; Kamber, B.; Higgs, B.; Kelley, S. (2017) Examining the Real Merits of the Virtual Microscope European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 Vienna, Austria, , 23-APR-17 - 28-APR-17 [Details]
	(2019)	62nd Irish Geological Research Meeting P. Meere, K. Higgs, M. O’Sullivan, A. Lim, R. Hennessy, S. Johnson (2019) The Geology of Skellig Michael – Finally Revealed 62nd Irish Geological Research Meeting UCD, Dublin, , 01-MAR-19 - 03-MAR-19   [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	National University of Ireland, Galway - Ryan Institute	Senior Technical Officer in Geographical Information Systems	01-JAN-12 / 31-MAR-16

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Education

	Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	2009	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ph.D	Earth & Ocean Sciences
	2002	National University of Ireland Maynooth	Higher Diploma	Applied Remote Sensing and GIS

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Teaching Activities

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Teaching Interests

Module Coordinator:

• GL6025: Geoinformatics for Applied Environmental Geosciences

• BL6019 – Ecological Applications of Geographical Information Systems(GIS)

BSc Geosciences