OSI Current Mapping
Aerial Photography (2009)
GSGS 4136 (1942)
GSGS 3906 (1940)
Fourth Edition six inch maps (1935-38)
Third Edition six inch maps (1911-12)
First Edition six inch maps (1843)
Duncan (1821)
Taylor (1816)
Rocque (1760)
Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery Series mapping derived from a 1:10,000 digital databases and aerial photography of photoscale 1:30,000 - 1:40,000 with field verification. Printed Scale 1:50,000 published 2007, extract from Sheets 50 and 56 Shown at lower zoom levels. Ordnance Survey Ireland 6th Edition Dublin Street Map, raster mapping generated from vector data at 300 dpi, Printed Scale 1:15,000 shown at higher zoom levels where available.
20cm resolution Geo-referenced Aerial Photography flown during the summer of 2009.
Geographical Section General Staff Third Edition. Published in 1942.
GSGS No. 3906 Sheet 29/23 S.E.
GSGS No. 3906 Sheet 29/23 S.W.
GSGS No. 3906 Sheet 29/21 N.E.
GSGS No. 3906 Sheet 29/21 N.W.
Only a small number of six inch maps were produced by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland from 1930 to 1955, usually for areas of growth around larger towns.
The 3rd edition 6 inch maps are based on the 25 inch re-survey despite the inclusion on the maps of the original survey date of 1837. The maps in use here were corrected to 1907-9 and were published between 1911 and 1912.
The 1st Edition of the Six inch Ordnance Survey maps (1:10,560 or six inches to one mile) for Co. Dublin were surveyed in 1837 and were corrected to 1843 with the possible exception of the sheet 18 which covers Dublin City. This sheet may be based on the original 1837 survey. The maps were produced as a county map series showing no detail from neighbouring counties.
Maps of the county of Dublin.
Grand Juries, the forerunners of today’s local authorities, needed maps for administrative and for planning purposes. In 1814, William Duncan was commissioned to produce a series of maps of Dublin County for the use of the Dublin Grand Jury. This series of maps was published in 1821.
Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle by actual survey on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. John Rocque’s map of Dublin quickly went out of date. For more than fifty years, map-users had to rely on Rocque’s map of Dublin as the only map of the greater Dublin area until the well-known engraver John Taylor decided to fill the gap in the market by producing a map of the area, funded by subscriptions. Taylor was not a surveyor and his map attracted unfavourable comment for its inaccuracies, omissions, inclusions and the irregular scaling of the lettering, etc. Taylor was fond of applying the prenomial “Lands of……” and a larger font to a placename as a means of either increasing the stature of the location or of filling an area of white space on the map. Likewise if space was tight, lettering size could be reduced. The scale of the map was 2 inches to 1 mile. John Taylor’s map of the environs of Dublin was published in 1816.
An actual survey of the county of Dublin on the same scale as those of Middlesex, Oxford, Barks and Buckinghamshire by John Rocque. Rocque’s map shows great attention to the detail of the countryside with houses, grass, trees, ploughed fields, fences, etc depicted as if seen from the air. On Rocques original map, north-south ran approximately diagonally from top right to bottom left. This explains why in this project the placenames do not run from left to right. The map was originally published in 1760.