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Support for non-broadband users
If you do not have broadband access, you can obtain a free CD of the
tiled images for the Ordnance Survey maps which can be used in conjunction
with the SVG version of the Ordnance Survey maps.
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Maps of some monuments of Clare
based on the Sites and Monuments Record created by the OPW overlaid
on the 1842 Ordnance Survey index map:
Abbeys,
Barrows,
Batteries,
Battlefields,
Cairns,
Cemetery
Cairns,
Castles
Churches,
Convents,
Crannógs,
Crosses,
Ecclesiastical
Enclosures,
Ecclesiastical
Remains,
Graveyards,
Burial
Grounds,
Cashels,
Cliff-edge
forts,
Hill
forts,
Promontory
forts,
Rinfgorts,
Friaries,
Round
towers,
Standing
stones,
Standing
Stones (pair)
Court
tombs,
Megalithic
tombs,
Portal
tombs,
Wedge tombs,
Tower
houses,
Tower
houses and bawns,
Holy
wells.
More maps of monuments available on
Mapbrowser.
External Links:
25"
Ordnance Survey Maps (1888-1913)
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Ireland,
Bartholomew Quarter-Inch to the mile, 1940 (National Library of
Sctoland)
Ireland
Surname Distribution Map
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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.
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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.
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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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The Clare Townland Fieldname
Survey
In 2010 the Clare Placenames Committee, with the support of highly capable
and trained surveyors, trained interested parties throughout the county
in the collection and recording of fieldnames; organised a media campaign
to raise the awareness of such; and continue to collect new information
in eighteen townlands.... As a final aim, the Committee aspires to the
digitisation of research on placenames in the county previously undertaken,
but which was not made available in digital format.
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info >>
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