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The Ordnance Memoir of Ireland was a projected 1830s topography of Ireland to be published alongside the maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland using materials gathered by surveyors as they traversed the country. The project was cancelled in 1840 as too expensive and beyond the survey's original scope.
Ordnance Survey Ireland ... In 1824, a committee was ... The British Ordnance Survey ceased to map Ireland just before the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 ...
From 1824, the OS began a 6-inch (1:10,560) survey of Ireland for ... creation of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, ... Ordnance Survey maps are largely ...
An officer in the Royal Engineers, Colby overcame the loss of one hand in a shooting accident to begin in 1802 a lifelong connection with the Ordnance Survey. His most important work was the Survey of Ireland. He began planning this enormous enterprise in 1824 and directed it until 1846, in which year the final maps made by the survey were ...
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
[54] [55] The Ordnance Survey of Ireland from its 1824 foundation used statute acres in its maps, which were used in turn for Griffith's Valuation and the census. The Irish acre remained common in Irish newspaper advertisements for farmland and other property until the middle of the 20th century.
The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is established. [1] The UK Weights and Measures Act [2] legally abolishes use of the Irish mile for most official purposes. [3] The Shelbourne Hotel is established on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Martin Burke. Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast. [4]
Google Map interface; 1843 Ordnance Survey 6-inch First Edition Ordnance Survey: Scale 6 inches to 1 mile. OSI Mapviewer zoomable; 1848 Dublin. The General Post Office Directory Google Map interface; 1848 Environs of Dublin S. Orr and Co, Amen Corner, London Google Map interface; 1851 General Map of the Environs of Dublin and parts of Wicklow