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This map shows how Ireland's historic city of Galway is plotted onto a detailed modern base. Over 200 sites and streets covering 600 years are depicted in color and are listed in an accompanying index. Town walls, bridges, churches, gallows, public buildings, schools, theaters, and wells are among the sites shown, many of which no longer survive in the present-day cityscape. It is an ideal aid for a walking tour of historic Galway. A booklet is attached that contains a commentary on the urban development of Galway and gives a chronological list of sites included on the map. Similar maps have...

Reading the Maps is a textbook companion to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, the successful series which documents and assesses the evolution of Irish towns. To date, over 27 published atlases, three bound volumes and ten ancillary publications supply comparative, thematic and specialised studies of Irish urban history. Various town types, from monastic to Viking to modern, illustrate the origins of urban culture portraying similarities and differences across the island of Ireland. This book picks from the best of the atlases. It is richly designed with maps and views taken from the IHTA...