Dublin 1847: city of the Ordnance Survey - Frank Cullen

Dublin 1847: city of the Ordnance Survey

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Buch | Softcover
108 Seiten
2015
Royal Irish Academy (Verlag)
978-1-908996-35-0 (ISBN)
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Forty-five map extracts and commentaries detailing the features and areas of mid nineteenth-century Dublin. It is an ancillary publication to IHTA, no. 26, Dublin, part III, 1756 to 1847 by Rob Goodbody.
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 and notable residents is contrasted to the densely inhabited warren of lanes behind Mount Street, just minutes away. The impact of public buildings such as the Royal (later Collins's) Barracks is impressively evident in the plan, while the associated professional and trading activities of the surrounding area are less obvious in the unlabelled rows of buildings along Montpellier Hill and Barrack (later Benburb) Street.

The maps extracts and commentaries are accompanied by contemporary illustrations; and are preceded by an introductory essay on Dublin in 1847. This is an ancillary publication to the Dublin series from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. `Dublin, part III, 1756 to 1847' by Rob Goodbody is also available from the Royal Irish Academy.

Author: Frank Cullen
Series editors: Anngret Simms, H.B. Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, Jacinta Prunty; Consultant editor: J.H. Andrews; Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty; Editorial assistants: Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore, Frank Cullen

Frank Cullen currently works as editorial assistant with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project in the Royal Irish Academy. He completed his PhD in history (NUI Maynooth, 2005) with a thesis titled 'Local government and the management of urban space: a comparative study of Belfast and Dublin, 1830 - 1922.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.2.2015
Reihe/Serie Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Vorwort J. H. Andrews
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, color; Maps
Verlagsort Dublin
Sprache englisch
Maße 240 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-908996-35-8 / 1908996358
ISBN-13 978-1-908996-35-0 / 9781908996350
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