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The Antiquities
of County Clare
Ordnance Survey Letters, 1839
by John O'Donovan & Eugene Curry
Books Ireland
September 1997
The Antiquities of County Clare: Ordnance
Survey Letters 1839. John O'Donovan and Eugene Curry.
CLASP Press, 335pp + 4 of colour plates,
Price: €21.00, Paperback, ISBN: 1 900545 15 2
Like the Ordnance Survey Memoirs series
the invaluable (to genealogists among others) documents on all sorts of
aspects of local life and lore, parish by parish, recorded in the case
of this county by among others these two outstanding and pioneering Gaelic
scholars. These were typewritten in 1928 but presumably never before published,
the IIS series being confined to northern counties. The typesetting was
done by FÁS trainees of CLASP, which is a county-library-based
employment project, but we could detect nothing amateur about the production;
there is clearly someone there who sets high standards and knows what
books should look like. There are illustrations and maps, and an index
to complete an invaluable (we repeat - no other word does) book.
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