New digital archive of first ordnance survey maps of island of Ireland coincides with completion of first detailed national land cover map
Kevin Long, digital archivist at Digital Repository of Ireland, Barbara McCormack, librarian at the Royal Irish Academy and Ellen Murphy, archives manager at Tailte Éireann, view a 19th-century Ordnance Survey map of Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan
Ireland’s housing crisis ‘on a different level’ with population growing at nearly four people for every new home builtTrump’s ‘conversation’ with Musk reveals dangers that were not made explicit until now “When I look at a map, I look at where I’m from and what it shows me about that place in the past and I think this will be of great interest,” she explains.
The memoirs of surveyors sometimes included sketches of buildings and monuments, many of which no longer exist, allowing researchers now to reimagine what was once there. And while studying the historical geography in and of itself is central to the OS200 project, researchers will also be able to draw comparisons to contemporary maps – in particular the new national land cover map, recently completed by Tailte Éireann and the Environmental Protection Agency .
“The common denominator between the historic and modern data is that it all has geospatial references so researchers will be able to make comparisons between the past and the present on the characteristics of townlands,” Dr Lilly adds.
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