Maps

The map collection includes single maps and atlases. Most importantly there is a complete, bound set of the six-inches-to-one-mile (1:10,560) Ordnance maps of Ireland, published 1832-46 (the first edition). These indicate houses, streams, roads and quarries, baronies, townlands and even (after1838), field boundaries. There is also a complete set of one-inch Ordnance maps of Ireland (1903) with Catholic parish boundaries and ESB electrification lines, added in the late 1940s.

• Catalogue

There are many single maps to be found as engraved plates accompanying texts. These can be tracked down by searching ‘map?’ as an ‘all fields’ search in the library catalogue, under the Sub-Set for the Russell Library.