| Subject: | RE: Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland ca. 1906 |
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| Date: | Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:02:31 -0000 |
| From: | Francis Herbet <[log in to unmask]> |
| To: | 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship' <[log in to unmask]> |
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
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 3rd
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; 2nd
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)
From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map
Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: 15 January 2014 12:48
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Subject: Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland ca. 1906
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Subject: |
Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland
ca. 1906 |
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Date: |
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:02:55 +0000 |
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From: |
Ratliff, Louise <[log in to unmask]> |
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To: |
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