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Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Old Maps
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:14:49 EDT
Pat at writes:
<< I would like to get one of the old 6 inch survey maps but I don't know if
that's possible, or how to go about it. >>
Pat,
The 6 inch maps (copies of) are available for purchase from the Ordnance
Survey. They're not cheap - the full map will be about 40 Pounds - but I believe
the OS will make copies of sections of the map for much less cost. Your
comment in this recent letter about "Tiny Park was about half a mile to the west,
but was now wasteland." pretty-much confirms what I had surmised in our
previous correspondence. This is the townland of Park, which abuts Tinryland to the
west and WNW, and is about a half-mile from the center of Tinryland (RC church
and school). I think the people who live in the six houses in the
south-central part of Park (as of ten years ago) and the apparently large farm operation
in the northern part of the townland might quibble with the "wasteland"
description <gr>.
The maps can be ordered from > <. The complete 6 inch
maps are identified by a CS (for County Series), the name of the county, and the
number of the 6 inch map - normally expressed as a Roman number. The reason
for this, is to avoid confusion with the 25 inch scale maps (about the same
cost as the 6 inch maps, but cover only 1/16th of the area). The 25 inch maps
are identified by a two digit number (1 through 16) locating the 1 by 1 1/2
mile size of these maps within the 4 mile by 6 mile coverage area of the 6 inch
maps, and placed at the end of the numerical identification of the map.
In your case, if you're looking for only the Park townland, you could buy the
entire Carlow CS - VII six-inch map, or you could request only the area of
that map represented by CS - VII - 10, 11, 14 and 15. Those four adjacent 1 x 1
1/2 mile sections will completly cover the 437 acres of Park townland.
Tinryland townland droops southward a bit, and would require both Carlow CS -
VII (actually, the CS - VII - 15 section) for the northern 90 percent of the
townland, and CS - XII (segment 3) for the southern 10 percent.
I do believe that these maps are available for viewing at the National
Archives, but that's only a weak recollection of what I've read. They may be
viewable to the OSI also, but I don't know. That would be Dublin-stuff, and I don't
go to Dublin <gr>.
Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts
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