Irish Historic Maps & Mapping

This magnificent book highlights a vast selection of maps that range across the centuries and cover every part of the island, shedding light on the history and development of Ireland. 

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Using a wealth of illustrations and specially prepared maps, Michael B. Barry brings to life the story of the Spanish Armada from start to finish, written in an accessible style.

This new historical atlas of Cork will explore the city from its origins to the present day.

Together with maps that reveal much about the famous buildings, transport, health, trade, life and work of the city, this book is a fascinating portrait of Dublin through the ages which offers many new perspectives on one of Europe's great cities.

South Kerry was always a place with its own distinctive personality, and once the heart of a great Irish lordship.

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) is producing a Dublin suburbs series of atlases in collaboration with Dublin City Council. . .

An eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city's Coat of Arms

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than one thousand years of bridges over the river Liffey. 

The Ordnance Survey's large-scale town plans for Dublin (1847) are the focus of this book. 

Richard Kirwan, a former Director of Ordnance Survey Ireland, takes the reader behind the scenes into the minds and work of the early map-makers with accounts of their inventions, adventures, endurance and heroism in pre-Famine Ireland. . .

Richard Bartlett was a talented cartographer and topographical draughtsman who practised in Ireland at the beginning of the seventeenth century. . .

2008 1st Edition  Landscape Hardback. Substantial text and accompanied by full colour maps from the period.

A unique project, marking Cork's designation as European Capital of Culture in 2005, the Atlas provides the reader with a range of perspectives on the city and its development over time. It is not an atlas in the conventional sense, as it is not solely reliant on maps, though there are many of these, both historical and specially commissioned for the volume.

Landholding, Society and Settlement in Nineteenth Century Ireland reflects the lifetime's work of a geographer with a lively, sympathetic and subtle mind who challenges practically all our preconceptions of about land and life on this island. 

2010 1st Edition Hardback

The survey pack consists of an illustrated book in both English and Irish plus a FREE database & map CD-ROM pack.