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Recent Additions

The Society is promoting this new book that is available to Members only at a reduced price. Finnian O’Cionnaith’s The Origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey: taxation, townlands and topography, was published in June 2024, exactly 200 years since the creation of the Ordnance!

This remarkable new book will bring to life the fascinating primordial days of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. In doing so, it will delve into the politics, technical logic and complex post-Union social issues that shaped the survey. Finnian is a terrific writer and he has put together a text that will be or huge interest to all those interested in local history, social history, cartography and it should have a very strong appeal to all those with an interest in the study.

To purchase this new publication at the reduced price, please visit here.

 

The Society's presence on YouTube is ever expanding with over a dozen and a half videos for all to watch at your leisure. There are two playlists currently: firstly our recordings of our online meetings on various subjects, the other, our talks held at our online AGMs.                                      
 

 

Our online Zoom Meetings are continuing within The Society. Visit the page to see details of the next meet and recordings of previous meetings. This is an ideal way to stay in contact and share your interests.                                
 

 

And the online Map Covers Collection is continuing and expanding all the time. This is an ongoing project of collation, where Members have supplied variants of known Ordnance Survey map covers to make an online reference system. Its an ideal place to check an anomaly in your collection or a shop.

 

Have you got a question?

Are you currently doing research into a mapping or surveying related subject? Do you have a question about a specific map, a symbol on a map recent or old? Or are you curious as to something related to the Ordnance Survey?

If so, maybe this independent Discussion Group set up by CCS Members can help? Click here to visit and ask away. With over 100 subscribers currently, we can probably answer that question and supply further detail, to help you on your way.