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General Map of the Environs of Dublin and parts of Wicklow Google Map interface; 1852 Dublin Street Directory Map showing the boundaries of several wards Size: 40.5 cm x 28 cm. Scale: 4 and one-eighth inches to one statute mile. General Post Office Directory. Colour map Flickr photo; 1863 Dublin showing the Boundaries of several Wards.
Historic Maps Collection. 18th and 19th-century historic maps of Ireland. A UCD Digital Library Collection. Maps of Dublin accompanying Thom's Official Directory, printed by the Ordnance Survey for the Dublin publisher Alexander Thom from the six-inch map sheets 18 and 22, and dating from the late 19th century. A UCD Digital Library Collection.
GeoHive Mapviewer Archived 6 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine: select Data Catalogue>Base Information and Mapping>Historic Map [25 inch (1888–1913) / 6 inch (1837–1842)] for old Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps; Logainm.ie (Placenames Database of Ireland) search/browse by parish/barony/county, English and Irish names; Goblet, Yann M., ed ...
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 .
In 1854, "twenty-five inch" maps were introduced with a scale of 1:2500 (25.344 inches to the mile) and the six inch maps were then based on these twenty-five inch maps. The first edition of the two scales was completed by the 1890s, with a second edition completed in the 1890s and 1900s.
To facilitate the re-distribution, an accurate survey of the lands was required. Benjamin Worsley, the Surveyor General, had made a survey in 1653.Petty challenged Worsley's direction of the new survey, on the basis that Worsley intended to map only territorial boundaries, to the exclusion of the administrative boundaries introduced from 1520s for local government. [2]
The building was demolished in the years following the map and was replaced by a modern Georgian hospital building in 1759 the facade of which still stands today and forms part of a complex of buildings owend by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The image was later copied and used as the illustration on tickets for Handel's Messiah in 1742.
"Historic 6-inch map". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 1833–1846. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012 (Zoom in to scale of 10,000:1 or less, to show 6-inch maps from 1833–46 with parish boundaries in blue.) "Memorial Atlas of Ireland (L.J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia)". NUI Galway. 2014 [1901].