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Subject:        RE: Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland ca. 1906
Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:02:31 -0000
From:   Francis Herbet <[log in to unmask]>
To:     'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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The source to which to turn for ‘The Answer to Life, the Universe, and
Everything [and Ordnance Survey]’ is The Charles Close Society for the
Study of Ordnance Survey Maps (‘CCS’ for short). Examine, if you will,
its website: www.charlesclosesociety.org
<http://www.charlesclosesociety.org>

If that website’s menu doesn’t readily produce the Answer, or a pointer,
then send your query to it; probably the ‘Answer’ will come from Dr
Richard R. Oliver

[[log in to unmask]], our (Brit) leading OS historian, whose 3^rd
edition of his essential /Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for
historians/ (published by CCS) is to be sought.

The (long since retired) Trinity College Dublin geography professor and
historian of ‘Irish OS’, John H. Andrews’s, book /A paper landscape: the
Ordnance Survey/ /in nineteenth-century Ireland/ (OUP, 1975; 2^nd edn,
Dublin: Four Courts Pr., 2001) is still worth consulting, too

Sincerely,

(Mr) Francis Herbert (a founder member, CCS; former Curator of Maps,
RGS-IBG)

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Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland ca. 1906

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Hi there,

I have a question about Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland that were drawn
around the turn of the century, 1904-1906 or so.  I am cataloging a
number of “Old Ordnance Survey Maps,” The Godfrey Edition, which are
modern reprints.  They refer only to the name “Ordnance Survey,” but I
am thinking this is not the Great Britain Ordnance Survey, but the Irish
one, because the original maps were published by “the Director General
at the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, Dublin.”  Can someone
clarify for me just who was responsible for the original maps?

There are dozens of records in OCLC for these modern maps, but only a
few record the corporate name as Ordnance Survey of Ireland.  Here is
the name authority record for that body:

110 2   Ordnance Survey of Ireland

410 1   Great Britain. ǂb Ordnance Survey of Ireland ǂw nnaa   [this is
a form of the name that used to be used in bibliographic records]

410 2   Survey of Ireland

410 2   Léarscáilíocht Éireann

510 2   Ordnance Survey (Ireland)

667    Valid for pre-1922 imprints

Thanks in advance for your help!

Louise

Louise Ratliff

Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian

UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center

11020 Kinross Ave.

Box 957230

Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230

(310)206-5853