Sources and method
The village on An Blascaod Mór, as we believe it may have appeared c.1910–1930.
1. What this is, and what it is not
This is a reconstruction. It shows the village on An Blascaod Mór — the Great Blasket, off the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry — as we believe it was, on the evidence set out on this page. It does not show the village as it was. Nobody alive has seen the village lived in, and no source records it completely.
Every modelled thing you can see falls into one of four classes. Some of it is traced from measurement of walls that are still standing. Some of it is described by a named source that describes that feature at that place. Some of it is not recorded here at all, and is taken from a published account of how houses of this region and period were built. And some of it is simply made up, because a scene needs a floor and a horizon and a stone in a wall, and no evidence exists for those. Section 5 lists what was made up. It is the shortest section on this page and the most important one.
Where this page says a thing is documented, it names the document. Where it says a thing is conjecture, it says so in plain words. If the two are ever hard to tell apart in the piece itself, that is a fault in the piece, and section 9 says how to report it.
2. The place and the date, precisely
Not yet written. Will state the date bracket c.1910–1930 and why that bracket and not another.
3. The evidence scale
Not yet written. Will define four levels — surveyed, documented, typological, conjectural — in four sentences, and explain the evidence view.
4. The sources
Not yet written. Will list sources per stop and per element, with links, dates, and the licence credit line where one is required.
5. What is conjectural
Not yet written. Will be an explicit list of what was invented, not a general caveat.
6. Method
Not yet written. Will state the software, the workflow, and how each source became geometry.
7. Generative tools
Not yet written. Will state, per asset class, whether a generative or procedural tool was used, which tool, and what it was given to work from.
8. Known errors and open questions
Not yet written. Will be maintained after launch, and dated.
9. Credits, and how to tell us we are wrong
Not yet written. Will credit per element, give one contact route, and commit to publishing corrections.
10. Sustainability
How this is hosted. The whole site is plain files — HTML, images and models in object storage, delivered by a content network. There is no server to patch, no database and no content management system. Nothing here needs an update to keep working. That is a deliberate choice: the two Irish heritage sites this project learned the most from were both off the public web in October 2026, and in neither case had the content rotted. The files were almost certainly still on disk.
How the certificate is renewed. Automatically, by the certificate authority, validated through a record in the domain's own DNS. No person has to remember a date. That is the failure this project is most careful about, because an expired certificate takes a site off the web suddenly and completely, with no warning period.
Who owns the domain, and the honest cost of the address.
blasket.authgod.com is a subdomain. The domain is shared with another project
of the author's. It is registered in the author's own name, not a client's or an
employer's, and set to renew automatically — but if authgod.com is ever sold or given
up, this address stops working with it. Every link on this site is relative, so the site itself can
be moved to a name of its own without changing a file. The old addresses would break. This is
recorded here rather than left unsaid, because a reader deciding whether to cite this page is
entitled to know how durable its address is.
Still to be settled, and it will be stated here when it is: where the archival copy is deposited, and what happens to this piece if the author stops.