He called Ireland “Iouerníā,” which is thought ... of the country – away from the coast and trading. These early maps would have been drawn up on the basis of charts and pilots' diaries ...

The digital heritage resource focuses on the early years of ordnance surveying in Ireland, bringing together maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material. Researchers at the University of ...

The cultural complexities of the OS in Ireland are recorded in a variety of source materials, not just maps. In various archives, museums and repositories across Ireland and Great Britain lie ...

Ptolemy did a little better, producing the first (highly inaccurate) map of Ireland in the wake of the Roman invasion of Britain. But many of the most informative of the early illustrations in the ...

The data is based on early 14th-century papal taxation ... “These sources offer a unique opportunity to map and quantify the economy of medieval Ireland, superseding the cultural, political ...

Hy-Brasil is referenced in both explorers' logs and Celtic mythology, but is it real? Imagination merges with reality where the island of Hy-Brasil is remembered in both travelers’ records and ...