The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

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Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although we are accustomed to seeing...
Author/Editor: Finnian Ó Cionnaith

Mapping, measurement and metropolis

How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin

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This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighteenth century. Written with...
Author/Editor: Finnian Ó Cionnaith

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

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The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Granted sweeping powers by the...
Author/Editor: Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

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This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a...
Author/Editor: Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

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This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth century. Among all...
Author/Editor: R.A. Somerville

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

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This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative...
Author/Editor: Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

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The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval...
Author/Editor: Tadhg O'Keeffe

Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915

Building on the past

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This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three main...
Author/Editor: Niamh NicGhabhann

A catalogue of the maps of the estates of the Archbishops of Dublin, 1654–1850

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The manuscript maps of the estates of the archbishops of Dublin are rare survivals for most of the Church of Ireland's cartographical collections were destroyed in the fire...
Author/Editor: Raymond Refaussé & Mary Clark

Dublin from 1970 to 1990

The City Transformed

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Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown. It was a time...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

Dublin, 1910–1940

Shaping the city and suburbs

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Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such...
Author/Editor: Ruth McManus