In the first half of the 1800s, Ireland became the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. In 2024 these six-inches-to-a-mile maps, books of placenames ...

'Whenever I walked Sackville Street [O'Connell Street] or any of Dublin's streets, I wondered just what secrets were held within the buildings, rooms and halls that lined them," writes Joseph EA ...

In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. Now, 200 years later, these 6in to a mile maps ...

Irish Ordnance Survey Maps: A User’s Guide . Author: Paul Mulligan . ISBN-13: 978-1916742062. ... Sign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, podcasts and more. Sign up.

Mention the idea of place in Irish poetry and what comes to mind is the bucolic, the pastoral, the rural: WB Yeats’s Sligo, Patrick Kavanagh’s Monaghan, Seamus Heaney’s Co Derry. The ...

Here’s a round-up – from possible comebacks to the ‘constituency of death’ – of what the revamped electoral map could mean in 12 constituencies in Election 2024. Cork South-Central ...