Inscribing Ireland : Place-names and the author/ity of the Ordnance Survey (1824-1846)
In 1825, two detachments of Royal Engineers were dispatched from their English headquarters and sent to Dublin to undertake the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland. This Survey aimed to set new standards for topographical mapping: however there was an anxiety to make the maps a standard of orthograp...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9671 |