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Historical Maps of County Clare
 
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1842 Ordnance Survey
   6-Inch Maps
Grand Jury Maps 1787 Petty's Down Survey 1658-9  &
County Map 1685
1842 Ordnance survey maps of County Clare
Grand Jury Maps 1787


The David Rumsey Maps of Clare
1736-1922

Maps and Views of County
Clare in the UK Hydrographic Office

Taylor and Skinner’s Maps of the
Roads of Clare 1783
David Rumsey Maps of Clare Maps and Views of County Clare in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

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Ordnance Survey Maps 1842
The Ordnance Survey was originally established in Britain in 1791, and in 1824 the Survey established its Irish headquarters in Dublin, in order to undertake the mapping and measurement of Irish townlands. The maps were drawn on a scale of 6 inches to one mile and published between 1833 and 1846. More info >>

Grand Jury Maps 1787
In 1779, the Grand Jury of County Clare commissioned Henry Pelham to make a map of the county. The map was completed in 1787 and measured 6 feet by 6 feet. It was drawn on a scale of 1½ inches to the mile, and included roads, rivers, lakes and large houses. More info >>

Petty’s Down Survey Barony Maps of Clare (1658-59) and the
‘Hiberniae Delineatio’ County Map of Clare (1685)

William Petty's Down Survey and ‘Hiberniae Delineatio’ maps are an accurate record of the country during the second half of the 17th century.
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The David Rumsey Maps of Clare
Many of the Atlases collected and published online by David Rumsey from his extensive Map Collection contain maps of County Clare from many eras, and many sources. These are now available on this website in JPEG and ExpressView (MrSID) format.
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Maps and Views of County Clare in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
The archive of the UKHO is the repository for Admiralty charts and since 1958 has accepted the responsibilities of an authorised place of deposit under the Public Records Act, which allows it to maintain its own archive.
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Taylor and Skinner’s Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1783
In 1777 George Taylor and Andrew Skinner surveyed and mapped the roads of Ireland and published their results the following year. A second edition of the Maps was printed in 1783. The maps were engraved by Garnet Terry.
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