Ireland in the 1650s lay in ruins. Twelve years of calamitous warfare had destroyed the country's infrastructure and resulted in the death of over 20% of the Irish population.
In August 1649 the New Model Army, led by Oliver Cromwell, went to Ireland to re-occupy the country following the Irish Rebellion of…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on May 26, 2014 at 3:00am — No Comments
Maps ... I love them. My grandfather instilled a tremendous appreciation for the art / science of cartography, and the essentiality of being proficient in geography. He was neither a professional cartographer nor an expert geographer, but he studied maps on a regular basis. I…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on May 7, 2014 at 5:00am — 4 Comments
I wanted to share this very nice (and potentially useful) map created by Kingston University, London. The Irish surnames plotted on this map have either historic or numeric importance to the counties of Ireland. Of numeric importance are the birth counts from the 1891 census.…
ContinueAdded by Ryan O'Rourke on October 17, 2013 at 6:00am — 7 Comments
The image above on the left is a detail from Richard Bartlett's A.D. 1602 map of Ulster showing the inauguration of the O'Neill chief/king at Tullyhogue, County Tyrone. Bartlett has been called, "…
Added by Ryan O'Rourke on August 24, 2013 at 11:00am — 3 Comments
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