History in the Ordnance Map

History in the Ordnance Map
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Download or read book History in the Ordnance Map written by John Harwood Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book describes the principal maps of Ireland and parts of Ireland produced by the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom over a period of nearly a hundred years, beginning with the establishment of the Survey's first Dublin headquarters in 1824 and ending in 1922 with the creation of separate government survey offices for the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Its aim is ... to indicate the type of information available to researchers from maps and associated documents at different scales, in different formats, and for different times and places." --Preface.


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