Ordnance Survey of Ireland [map] / published by Colonel H. James, Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey.

Author
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Mountjoy House, Dublin] : Ordnance Survey Office, [1858-1862]
Description
  • Scale 1:63,360. (W 11°00ʹ00ʺ--W 5°20ʹ00ʺ/N 55°27ʹ00ʺ--N 51°13ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map on 205 sheets : hand col. ; 31 x 46 cm. on sheets 45 x 61 cm.

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Notes
  • Relief shown by shading, hachures and spot heights.
  • Ordnance survey of Ireland on the scale of one inch to a mile issued in outline as quarter sheets.
  • Sheets show place names, water, bog, bridges, roads, principal buildings, woods, orchards, demesnes, trigonometric stations and altitudes, boundaries of parishes, baronies and counties, indices to adjoining sheets and to the Six Inch maps.
  • All sheets carry blind tool stamp "Ordnance Survey of the British Isles, Ireland" depicting the escutcheon of the ordnance Survey with three cannon balls above three cannons held on each side by a male figure, one carrying a hammer, the other large thongs.
  • All sheets in outline, without hills. Early sheets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 22, 23 and 24 dating from 1854-58 included contours; contours were discontinued in 1858.
  • Sheets dating from 1860 carry copyright notice. Also "The Altitudes are given in Feet above the Low Water of Spring Tides in Dublin Bay which is 21 feet below a mark on the base of Poolbeg Lighthouse". Sheet names in brackets next to sheet number.
  • The topography of each sheet may be dated by the changing ranks and names of officers in charge at Mountjoy, engraved on each plate. Most sheets 1858-61.
  • Most sheets under direction of Captain, later Lieutenant-Colonel George Archibald Leach; all with Henry James, Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey.
  • Historic Maps copy has initials and dates, ranging from 9 Oct. 1862 to 1 April 1863, on each sheet; sheets 7 and 13 have ms. annotations.
Contents
  • Contents: Sheet 7 (Giant's Causeway)
  • Sheet 8 (Ballycastle)
  • Sheet 13 (Coleraine)
  • Sheet 14 (Cushendall)
  • Sheet 20 (Ballymena)
  • Sheet 28 (Antrim)
  • Sheet 35 (Dungannon)
  • Sheet 60 (Newry)
  • Sheet 61 (Ardglass)
  • Sheet 71 (Carlingford).
OCLC
862249544
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