A collection of mainly 19th century maps of almost 150 cities, towns, and villages in the Republic of Ireland.
Most are Town Plans which were surveyed at either five or ten foot to one mile scale between 1837 and 1896.The remainder were produced by enlargement of the 1/2500 maps between 1892 and 1911.
View the entire collection online in the UCD Digital Library.
Killeshin Church, Carlow, 1873
Carlow
Cloppenburg Map of Udrone in Carlow, 1630
Thomas Moland's Survey of Carlow, 1703
Charles Colombine's Map, 1735
Cavan
A selection of medium to high resolution images of maps relating to County Cavan, including 13 plates from Taylor & Skinner's 1778 road book, and maps by Petty, 1685; Scale, 1776; Coote, 1800; Lewis, 1839; Adlard 1850.
Clare
County Clare 1736 - 1922 from the David Rumsey Map Collection Clare County Library have made maps relating to Clare from many eras and sources available by copying atlases and maps from the online collections published by David Rumsey.
Petty’s Down Survey Barony Maps (1658-59) & ‘Hiberniae Delineatio’ County Map (1685)
Maps and Views of County Clare in the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
O Dalaigh, Brian. (2012) Ennis: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Cork
O'Flanagan, Patrick. (1988) Bandon: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Kelly, David and O'Keeffe, Tadgh. (2015) Youghal: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Cork Past and Present is a service of Cork City Libraries which makes the following maps available online:
Goad Fire Insurance Plans.
From 1885 the firm of Charles E. Goad produced fire insurance plans for the commercial areas of more than 100 towns in Britain and Ireland. These plans which showed details regarding access to water, routes to building, room arrangements, locations of doors & windows, thickness of walls, information on construction materials, type of roof, locations of combustible materials, were used by fire insurance companies and fire fighters. The British Library has information about Goad and fire insurance plans. 19th century Cork GOAD plans are available online from The British Library. Check the GPEP Map Library Catalogue for their holdings of GOAD maps.
Derry
Digital Atlas of Derry-Londonderry. Based on content from Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 15, Derry~Londonderry by Avril Thomas (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2005), the Digital Atlas provides users with historical and topographical information about the city of Derry for selected time-periods.
Donegal
Ulster Ancestry provide free on-line versions of Ulster maps for the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone. The map for Donegal shows Letterkenny, Donegal Town, Raphoe, Stranorlar, Lifford and Carndonagh.
Ordnance Survey first edition 6inch map 1835 (with 1848 revisions to parts) http://gis.donegal.ie/librarymaps/index/index.htm
Galway
James Hardiman’s The history of the town and county of the town of Galway, 1820. This is also available in Richview Library and includes maps.
Claffey, J.A. (2009) Tuam: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
A map of the county of Galway, [published in 16 sheets] by William Larkin, 1819
Plan de Galloway by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1764
Large engraved map of Galway, circa 1650 [Hardiman collection]
Map of Galway, by Braun and Hogenberg, 1617
Province of Connaught with the Citie of Galway by John Speed, 1610
Digital Atlas of Galway created by Irish Historic Town Atlas, et al. The Digital Atlas of Galway provides users with historical and topographical information about the city for selected time-periods.
Kerry
Iveragh, Co. Kerry, in 1811 : Alexander Nimmo's map for the Bogs Commissioners of 1809-1814 available to borrow from James Joyce and Richview Libraries.
Kildare
Noble & Keenan's map of the County of Kildare (1752) A reprint is also held in Richview Library
Alexander Taylor's map of County Kildare (1783) reprint in Richview Library
Andrews, J.H. (1986) Kildare: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Horner, A. (1995) Maynooth: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Four-inch Sketch of the Curragh of Kildare (circa 1870s) Dublin: Ordnance Survey Office
The Curragh District, one inch to one mile, (1926) Dublin: Ordnance Survey Ireland
Kilkenny
Kilkenny city map (1900) reprint available from Richview Library
Bradley, J. (2000) Kilkenny: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Links to 24 maps from 1564 to 1922 showing the county of Kilkenny
A range of schematic maps which show the rivers, towns, baronies, and parishes of Kilkenny displayed on them
Laois
The Queen’s County Baronies map from 1881 and Lewis's 1837 Queen's County Map are available online from Irish Midlands Ancestry.
Leitrim
This site gathers together historic and contemporary maps of Mohill and South County Leitrim
The Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy website contains outline maps for the Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Poor Law Unions and Catholic Parishes in Leitrim
Limerick
Goad Fire Insurance Plans.
From 1885 the firm of Charles E. Goad produced fire insurance plans for the commercial areas of more than 100 towns in Britain and Ireland. These plans which showed details regarding access to water, routes to building, room arrangements, locations of doors & windows, thickness of walls, information on construction materials, type of roof, locations of combustible materials, were used by fire insurance companies and fire fighters. The British Library has information about Goad and fire insurance plans. 19th century Limerick GOAD plans are available online from The British Library. Check the GPEP Map Library Catalogue for their holdings of GOAD maps.
Limerick City (1870) 5 feet to 1 mile maps published by Ordnance Survey. These maps are available to view in the UCD Digital Library OSi 19th Century Historical Maps collection. See section 13.1
Limerick City map (1900) reprint available from Richview Library.
This catalogue and maps were for the sale of the ground rents of the Earl of Limerick in 1907. They constitute an invaluable record of property and mapping of large parts of Limerick City from early in the 20th century.
O'Flaherty, Eamon (2010) Limerick: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Towne of Kilmallock in the County of Limerick, per Joanes by George Carew, early 17th century
Longford
Gearty, S., Morris, M., O'Ferrall, F. (2010) Longford: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Louth
These facsimile maps of Louth are available in Richview Library:
Joseph Ravell map of Drogheda (1749)
Read Christine Casey's article Joseph Ravell's "A Map of the Town and Suburbs of Drogheda 1749"
Ordnance Survey Map of Drogheda (1908)
Ordnance Survey Map of Dundalk (1907/08)
Dundalk Digital Atlas - In this project an interactive digital map based on a static two-dimensional map from 1835 of Dundalk has been linked to a purpose built online historical archive.
O'Sullivan, Harold (2006) Dundalk: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
O'Sullivan, H., Gillespie, R. (2011) Carlingford: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Mayo
William Bald's Map of County Mayo Surveyed 1809-1816 and published in 1830
Lynch-Blosse & Garret Moore Estates with maps from the 18th and 19th centuries
Meath
Simms, A. (1990) Kells: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Hennessy, M. (2004) Trim: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Offaly
A range of historical maps are available online from the Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society
Griffith's Valuation maps are available on Irish Midlands Ancestry.
King’s County maps (1837 & 1881) available on Irish Midlands Ancestry.
The King’s County Baronies map from the Atlas and cyclopedia of Ireland by P W Joyce, published 1905
and Lewis's 1837 King's County Map
Horner, A.A. (2006) Mapping Offaly in the Early Nineteenth Century published by Wordwell, Bray
Feehan, J. (2005) An Atlas of Birr published by Department of Environmental Resource Management, Dublin
Roscommon
The Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy website contains outline maps for the Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Poor Law Unions and Catholic Parishes in Roscommon
A coloured map of Roscommon from the Atlas and cyclopedia of Ireland by P W Joyce, published 1905
Sligo
Ordnance Survey 6inch map of Sligo 1837
Bartholomew Street Plan of Sligo 1909. The map is contained in the guidebook Ireland (Part 1) Northern Counties including Dublin and Neighbourhood by MJB Baddeley. (Click on the magnifying glass to see better image)
Sligo Town (1910) scale 1:4,300 [Phoenix reprint reduced from Ordnance Survey map] available in Richview Library
Courtesy of Sligo County Libraries access is made available to the 1659 Down Survey Maps and the 1837 Ordnance Survey Maps of county Sligo
Gallagher, F., Legg, M.L. (2012) Sligo: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Horner, Arnold. (2011) Mapping Sligo in the early nineteenth century : with an atlas of William Larkin's map of County Sligo, 1819. Dublin, Wordwell.
Tipperary
O'Keeffe, Tadhg.(2003) Fethard: Irish Historic Town Atlas Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Waterford
Waterford City map (1901/1905: Phoenix reprint). Reprint in Richview Library
Westmeath
Athlone map (1912: Phoenix reprint). Reprint in Richview Library
Murtagh, Harman.(1994) Athlone: Irish Historic Town Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Andrews, J.H. and Davies, K.M. (1992) Mullingar: Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Wexford
Wexford Town (1903: Phoenix reprint). Reprint in Richview Library
Wicklow
Davies, K.M. (1998) Bray : Irish Historic Town Atlas. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy
Fraser's Map of the County of Wicklow, including the Environs of the City of Dublin, 1855.
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