Historical Maps of Ireland

by Michael Swift

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785811095
• ISBN13: 9780785811091
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Historical Maps of Ireland

This is a really good collection of colour reproductions of early maps of Ireland, taken from the English Public Record Office, and well organised. The best are the very early (16th & 17th century) ones, but there are also interesting later ones. The book has two flaws. The major one is that there are no PRO reference numbers, making it hard for anyone to go and search out the originals, the lesser one is that the introduction is a long historical essay about Ireland covering the last two thousand years. I don't see any need for this in a book of this sort, though the essay is, in itself, unobjectionable.