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Mountjoy House, the headquarters of Ordnance Survey Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Thomas Colby, the long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain, was the first to suggest that the Ordnance Survey be used to map Ireland. A highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland would be extremely useful for the British ...
OSI Discovery No. 50 Tibradden Mountain ( Irish : Sliabh Thigh Bródáin , meaning 'mountain of the house of Bródáin') [ 4 ] is a mountain in County Dublin in the Republic of Ireland . Other former names for the mountain include "Garrycastle" and "Kilmainham Begg" (a reference to Kilmainham Priory which once owned the lands around the ...
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
OSI Discovery #50 Kilmashogue or Kilmashoge ( Irish : Cill Mochióg ) [ 2 ] is a mountain in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county in Ireland . It is 408 metres (1,339 feet) high [ 1 ] and forms part of the group of hills in the Dublin Mountains which comprises Two Rock , Three Rock , Kilmashogue and Tibradden Mountains. [ 3 ]
OSI Discovery #50 Barnaslingan ( Irish : Barr na Slinneán , meaning 'summit of the shoulder blades') [ 2 ] is a 238 metres (781 feet) high hill in County Dublin , Ireland . [ 1 ] It is most noted for the geological feature known as The Scalp ( Irish : An Scailp , meaning 'the chasm' or "cleft") [ 3 ] that lies to the west of the summit.
The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland "Discovery Series" (Third Edition 2005) 1:50,000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region. Extremities of the Dublin Region, in the north and south of the region, appear in other sheets of the series, 43 and 56 respectively.
One series of historic maps, published by Cassini, is a reprint of the Ordnance Survey first series from the mid-19th century but using the OS Landranger projection at 1:50,000 and given 1 km gridlines. This means that features from over 150 years ago fit almost exactly over their modern equivalents and modern grid references can be given to ...
"Ben" is an anglicized form of the Irish word binn, meaning "peak". [3] According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, [c] "An odd thing about the Twelve Bens of Connemara is that nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question", and noting that there are almost 20 peaks with "Ben" or "Binn" in their name.