Limerick
Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21
2010
Royal Irish Academy
978-1-904890-55-3 (ISBN)
Royal Irish Academy
978-1-904890-55-3 (ISBN)
Limerick is the twenty-first in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, which assembles topographical documentations on the development of Irish towns and publishes them as individual fascicles.
Number 21 in the ‘Irish Historic Towns Atlas’ series, Limerick, charts in words, maps and pictures the development of Limerick city from its Viking origins to 1900. Four thousand sites including churches, tower houses, ball alleys, granaries, bacon manufactories and department stores are recorded in the extensive topographical section capturing Limerick’s Viking foundations in the early ninth century, through the Anglo-Norman, medieval, early modern and modern periods. The introductory historical essay is illustrated with text maps of the Viking settlements and a conjectural early street, as well as a map of medieval Limerick that chronicles the line of the city walls and buildings. Vignettes of Limerick’s urban history are dotted throughout the text section. Limerick's prominence as a southern Irish port city means it has been densely mapped since the late sixteenth century. Assembled here are reconstructed Ordnance Survey plans from 1840, some 27 loose-sheet historical facsimiles, including Elizabethan maps from 1587 to 1590; John Speed’s 1610 map; the Pacata Hibernia from 1633; Webb’s 1651 map and various others. Water colours, ink sketches and photographs by renowned artists from the 17th to 20th century present dramatic views of a multilayered city. Fascicle with CD-ROM included.
Author: Eamon O'Flahery; 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, Angela Byrne
Number 21 in the ‘Irish Historic Towns Atlas’ series, Limerick, charts in words, maps and pictures the development of Limerick city from its Viking origins to 1900. Four thousand sites including churches, tower houses, ball alleys, granaries, bacon manufactories and department stores are recorded in the extensive topographical section capturing Limerick’s Viking foundations in the early ninth century, through the Anglo-Norman, medieval, early modern and modern periods. The introductory historical essay is illustrated with text maps of the Viking settlements and a conjectural early street, as well as a map of medieval Limerick that chronicles the line of the city walls and buildings. Vignettes of Limerick’s urban history are dotted throughout the text section. Limerick's prominence as a southern Irish port city means it has been densely mapped since the late sixteenth century. Assembled here are reconstructed Ordnance Survey plans from 1840, some 27 loose-sheet historical facsimiles, including Elizabethan maps from 1587 to 1590; John Speed’s 1610 map; the Pacata Hibernia from 1633; Webb’s 1651 map and various others. Water colours, ink sketches and photographs by renowned artists from the 17th to 20th century present dramatic views of a multilayered city. Fascicle with CD-ROM included.
Author: Eamon O'Flahery; 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, Angela Byrne
Dr Eamon O'Flaherty is a lecturer in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin. His research interests include, early modern European history; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French intellectual history; social history of ideas; eighteenth-century Irish history.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.1.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | Irish Historic Towns Atlas |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Professor Anngret Simms, Professor H.B. Clarke, Professor Raymond Gillespie, Dr Jacinta Prunty |
Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black and white; Maps; Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Dublin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 305 x 410 mm |
Gewicht | 1276 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-904890-55-5 / 1904890555 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-904890-55-3 / 9781904890553 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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