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Map of Cork in 1545. For much of the Middle Ages, Cork city was an outpost of Old English culture in the midst of a predominantly hostile Gaelic countryside and cut off from the English government in the Pale around Dublin. Neighbouring Gaelic and Hiberno-Norman lords extorted "Black Rent" from the citizens to keep them from attacking the city.
Cork was founded in the 6th century as a monastic settlement, and was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was granted by Prince John in 1185. Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets.
On the south side is Ros na Bruighne (headland of strife), written Glinkelty (Gleann Caolta) on 17th century map of Petty. Standing stone and possible ringforts. Kiloveenoge Cill Ui Mhionoig, 'Minogue's church', or Cill Oighe Mhineog church of the virgin Mineog. Child burial ground, on the east side is a former Protestant Church built 1860 or ...
Rocque's map of Cork of 1759 is the first to show significant housing in the Turners Cross area in the areas that are now Evergreen Street (then Maypole Lane) and Quaker Road (then Graveyard Lane). [4] Previous maps of Cork in 1690 and 1726 show only occasional houses associated with what were then farms on the southern edge of the city. [5]
Cork: Corcaigh [i 6] By 1841: 43,813 Formed from the "Liberties of Cork", the portion previously within the County of the city of Cork which was not within the borough of Cork. Cork: Courceys: Cúrsaigh [i 6] By 1672: 8,812 Named after the de Courcy barons. Cork: Duhallow: Dúiche Ealla [i 6] By 1672: 232,328 Name means "land of the Munster ...
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.
The Carrigrohane Straight is a straight segment of road that stretches for 2.75 miles (4.43 km), from the edge of Cork west to Carrigrohane in County Cork, Ireland. It is just over 140 years old, and now forms part of the N22 National Primary route between Cork and Tralee.
Rocque spent six years in Dublin (1754–60), where he produced a number of maps of the Irish capital, as well as county maps of Dublin and Armagh, city maps of Kilkenny and Cork, and a series of sumptuously illustrated manuscript surveys of the estates of the then Earl of Kildare. [2]