Number 1 in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, Kildare, traces the history of this monastic town through its cartographic and primary sources from earliest times to c. 1900. The fascicle contains Ordnance Survey and historical maps as well as historic and aerial photographs. An essay describes the topographical evolution of Kildare and a gazetteer, or topographical information, includes histories of c. 200 sites in the town. These atlases illustrate characteristic periods of town formation in Ireland and reflect the country's cultural identity through the town's topographical history....

Number 10, Kilkenny, is the first publication of a city in the 'Irish Historic Towns Atlas' series. Kilkenny contains a topographical information section that lists historical and archaeological details of almost 2,000 sites and an essay, all tracing the evolution of the city. Special maps include a large colour reconstruction of the city in c. 1842; the Down Survey map of c. 1655; a map depicting the growth of the city up to 1758 and the value of houses in 1850; John Rocque's map in 1758; views of the city by Francis Place, c. 1698 and Thomas Mitchell, c. 1760; and three Ordnance Survey maps...

The Ordnance Survey's large-scale town plans for Dublin (1847) are the focus of this book. Forty-five extracts from these richly detailed maps depict the streets, lanes, buildings, gardens, yards and parks of the city with precision, to the extent that individual houses (with numbers), pumps, lamp posts and trees are shown. Author Frank Cullen considers selected features and areas of the mid-nineteenth-century city through the map extracts, using other sources to discuss the elements of urban life that lie behind maps. For example, the formal layout of Merrion Square with its fine buildings...

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...

The subject of the book is the remarkable `pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century.