The Ordnance Survey Office (now Ordnance Survey of Ireland) commenced its work in 1824 as a Board of Ordnance and Ministry of Defence project and was tasked with the massive undertaking of mapping Ireland on a  scale of six inches to one mile, a hitherto unheard of scale of mapping detail globally. Ireland was the first country in the world to be mapped at this scale.

We are now reproducing , from originals in the Collection, beautifully framed reproductions of the County Index maps for many of the counties of Ireland. We can also do customisation special orders for local areas within each county of which some examples are shown in the Cork, Kerry, Clare, Galway and Mayo maps below.

Beautifully framed ,these stunning and detailed maps of are both artistic and cartographic feasts for anyone with an interest in the history of their county. Nine county maps and their content from the West coast of Ireland are currently available with the following counties to follow in the coming months: Leitrim,Derry,Down,Cavan,Armagh,Longford,Antrim,Carlow,Laois,Fermanagh, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Monaghan, Tyrone, Westmeath, & Waterford.

(Regrettably the counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Louth, Wicklow & Wexford are not in the Collection).