id
	13361
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13361
Resource template
	Book
Resource class
	bibo:Book
Title
	The Irish Ordnance Survey: History, Culture and Memory
Creator
	Doherty, Gillian M.
Publisher
	Four Courts Press
Date
	2006
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This is a cultural and intellectual history of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland from 1824 to 1846. Captain Thomas Larcom of the Survey intended to produce and encyclopaedia-like series of county memoirs to accompany the maps, a great survey that would explain Ireland literally, as the maps would represent it graphically. Only one memoir (for Templemore, County Derry), was published before the project was suspended by not before and immense amount of research had been undertaken for the whole country. These memoir reports by Ordnance engineers, scholars and local civic assistants constitute a remarkable archive on culture, folklore, religious practices, oral histories and social structures, before much was swept away by the Famine, modernization and anglicization.
Spatial Coverage
	Dublin
Isbn
	978-1-84682-036-6
Number of pages
	237
Short title
	The Irish Ordnance Survey
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/2V9MIEBP/item-list

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