Irish Maps and Surveys

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Not posting this on Websites etc. as it's part of a subscription site - Findmypast, but thought you might be interested to know some new items included.

Explore 33 Ordnance Survey maps covering Dublin at the height of the Great Famine. This large-scale government map, broken up into numerous sheets, displays the locations of all the streets, buildings, gardens, lanes, barracks, hospitals, churches and landmarks throughout the city. You can even see illustrations of the trees in St Steven's Green. You can see the contrast between the densely populated working class areas and the spacious wealthy homes of the upper classes.
Ireland, Maps and Surveys 1558-1610
Delve through 68 early Irish maps digitised in full colour from the National Archives series State Papers Ireland. These maps were created during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I and assisted the English in the plantation of Ireland - a time when the English crown confiscated Irish lands and redistributed them to English planters or settlers. Most of the land confiscated had previously belonged to Gaelic leaders in Munster and Ulster.
The maps are beautifully decorated and were used to inform the settlers of the locations of rivers, bogs, fortifications, harbours, etc. In some illustrations, you will find drawings of wildlife and even sea monsters. Around the harbours, the cartographers took the time to draw meticulously detailed ships with cannons and sailors. Many of the maps also detailed the names of the numerous Gaelic clans and the lands they owned, for example, O'Hanlan in Armagh, O'Neill in Tyrone, O'Connor in Roscommon, etc.
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