Maps help us to connect with our localities and many of us are familiar with maps of our local area. Historic maps in particular provide us with an important window onto our past and reveal how a ...

We all know something of the story of the Ordnance ... Survey in Ireland in the nineteenth century: perhaps we’ve remarked on a particularly unfortunate translation of a placename, or used a 6 ...

Two centuries ago Ireland was the setting for the ... are retracing the steps of the surveyors who completed the Ordnance Survey map in 1841 without modern technology. BBC News NI’s cameras ...

running from Abbey to Zincography – the latter a method of 19th-century printing by the Ordnance Survey for producing maps whereby the image was drawn on and printed from a zinc plate.

Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI ... 70 datasets are available for the public to use across 10 base-maps of data collected on Ireland’s nature and environment, as well as its population and economy.