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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.
Under the Ordnance Survey Ireland Act 2001, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland was dissolved and a new corporate body called Ordnance Survey Ireland was established in its place. [3] OSI was an autonomous corporate body, with a remit to cover its costs of operation from its sales of data and derived products, which sometimes raised concerns about ...
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.
Google Map interface; 1880 Ordnance Survey Map of the City and its Environs Ordnance Survey: Constructed for Thom's Almanac and Official Directory. Printed and published by Alexander Thom, 87 & 88 Abbey Street, Dublin. Under direction of Lt Colonel Martin. Scale 6 inches to 1 mile. Google Map interface – North county Dublin
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 ...
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 ...
In general, neither Ireland nor Great Britain uses latitude or longitude in describing internal geographic locations. Instead grid reference systems are used for mapping.. The national grid referencing system was devised by the Ordnance Survey, and is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland or ...
^ The building appears on Ordnance Survey 1" map series in the 1st, 2nd and revision versions, as well as the Ordnance Survey First Edition 6" Series [1836 to 1846], and on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 series on sheet #73, grid R, grid ref 552196