Background
Pochin Mould was born in Salisbury in England near Stonehenge in 1920.
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Pochin Mould was born in Salisbury in England near Stonehenge in 1920.
She studied geology in Edinburgh during the war. There she received her Doctor of Philosophy in Geology from Edinburgh University in 1946 entitled "The Geology of the Foyers Plutonic Complex and the surrounding country".
She had a strong interest in archaeology and took thousands of oblique aerial photos across most of southern Ireland. The collection created is private but is catalogued and some photos may be available. She moved to Ireland following her conversion and an interest in the Celtic saints and has lived in Aherla, Company Cork, Ireland since.
Pochin Mould learned to drive at 17 and always had an interest in machinery.
She learned to fly and found it useful for cataloguing archaeological sites in fields that could be seen from the air. She was known for being a skilled pilot.
In 1993 she received an honorary doctorate from University College Cork when she was described as "a scientist and a free spirit, a courageous pioneer and an outstanding woman warrior". According to the late Professor Colm Ó hEocha, President of University College Galway there are three criteria for honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland (of which Cork is a college):
Irish life must have been enriched by it and
The conferring of the honorary degree must honour the university as well as the person.
Daphne Pochin Mould died at Aherla, County Cork, on 29 April 2014.
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