New edition of J. H. Andrews' Plantation Acres book on mapping in Ireland now available

Newly available from the Ulster Historical Foundation (https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com):

Plantation Acres: Mapping Ireland, the Irish land surveyor and his maps, by J. H. Andrews

Professional land surveyors first appear in Ireland during the Elizabethan period as alien intruders into a system of land reckoning that was still largely medieval, and until the end of the seventeenth century their main role was to measure and map the lands that were confiscated by the government for redistribution to British settlers. 

Later they were chiefly employed in the survey of private estates, but they also contributed to Ireland’s Georgian age of improvement by mapping intended streets and buildings and by laying out roads, canals and drainage schemes, as well as by demarcating many of the proprietorial and tenurial boundaries required by a growing population of farmers. 

While the most extensive surveys of this era came from a small number of wealthy firms based in Dublin, there were also hundreds of country and small-town practitioners, many of them doubling as farmers, school teachers or tradesmen, whose maps seldom depict more than a single townland.

The Irish land surveyor’s most enduring legacy survives in the map collections of Ireland’s major public libraries and record offices, and these have provided much of the material for a book which is intended to interest historians, geographers, and all those concerned with the changing character of both rural and urban landscapes.

Note: THIS IS A REPRINT OF THE 1985 ORIGINAL. THERE IS NO NEW TEXT BY THE AUTHOR, BUT INCLUDES A MUCH EXPANDED INDEX AND NEW PREFACE BY THE LATE AUTHOR AND A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ARNOLD HORNER. 

For further details on the book, and how to purchase, visit https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/shop/products/plantation-acres - the purchase price is £24.99, plus postage.

Chris 

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