Gravity Survey

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The flag stone at the west entrance to the church will be used as part of a gravity survey that will be carried out in Irelnd in the autumn.
The survey will bring an Absolute Gravimeter to record some Absolute values which is something that has not been done before. the OSI will have a relative gravimeter on site too.
The point at the church will form part of a network of points which will cover the island of Ireland, there will be approximately 50 in the Republic and another 10 or so in the North.
The gravity network will improve the heighting network of Ireland and will also be available to scientific projects which will improve models for Ireland in areas like weather prediction models and seismic prediction models. The data will also be available for European models which would see Ireland included on some of these models also.
It is a new area of study for Ireland and the points put in will act in a similar manner to the old benchmark network only instead of levelling the instrumentation will be relative gravimeters.