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Plantation Acres: Mapping Ireland, the Irish land surveyor and his maps

Plantation Acres: Mapping Ireland, the Irish land surveyor and his maps

Andrews, J. H.

Paperback

Irish History

Publisher Price: $39.99

ISBN10: 1913993760
ISBN13: 9781913993764
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Published: Sep 28 2025
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book deals with an important but neglected element in modern Irish history. Professional land surveyors first appear in Ireland during the Elizabethan period as alien intruders into a system of land reckoning that was still largely medieval, and until the end of the seventeenth century their main role was to measure and map the lands that were confiscated by the government for redistribution to British settlers. Later they were chiefly employed in the survey of private estates, but they also contributed to Ireland's Georgian age of improvement by mapping intended streets and buildings and by laying out roads, canals and drainage schemes, as well as by demarcating many of the proprietorial and tenurial boundaries required by a growing population of farmers. While the most extensive surveys of this era came from a small number of wealthy firms based in Dublin, there were also hundreds of country and small-town practitioners, many of them doubling as farmers, school teachers or tradesmen, whose maps seldom depict more than a single townland.

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