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• A Directory of UK Map Collections

  From the Map Curators Group of the British Cartographic Society. Detailed information of map holdings in libraries and archives throughout the United Kingdom.

• A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland

  The complete online text of the 1837 edition of Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland.

• Administrative Regions of the British Isles

  From GENUKI

  • Administrative Areas of Northern Ireland

  • Administrative Areas of the Republic of Ireland

• An Atlas of Irish Names

  Project of the National University of Ireland. Seeks to determine the origins and recent distribution of Irish surnames in Ireland. Currently includes surname distribution maps of Ireland for the surnames BRENNAN, CARNEY, COLLINS, CONNOLY, FOLEY, KENNY, KERR, KING, MORAN, & QUINN.

• Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Ireland Gazetteer and Surname Guide

  • Ireland Topographical Dictionary

    Original source: Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Vol. I. London, England: S. Lewis and Co., 1837.

• AntiqueMapsUK.com

  Range of antique maps specialising in good value items from c1900.

  • Ireland

• AQUA 3 All Weather Maps

  Online source of all maps Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland.

• Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland

  The Atlas provides information on each of the 32 Irish counties, including origin of the county name, size and population, geographical features, ancient divisions and designations (including the main clans associated with each). There is also a map for each county, showing the cities, towns, villages and baronies, as well as the rivers and roads etc. The information on the population of the counties and major towns, and the clearly marked baronies on the individual maps, should prove of use and interest to genealogists involved in studying their Irish ancestry.

• Border Art

  Genealogy clan maps of Scotland and Ireland and Irish and Scottish clan crest merchandise.

• Chapman Codes for Ireland

• Civil Parish Maps for Ulster

• Counties and Countries in Britain and Ireland

  Many foreigners, and not a few British and Irish people, seem to get confused by the names of the countries and counties which make up these offshore islands.

• Density of distribution of the natives of Ireland: 1890

  Scanned image from the Statistical Atlas of the United States, based upon the results of the eleventh census.

• Frith Book Co.

  Books containing photographic images from around Great Britain taken by Frith & Company beginning in the 1860s.

• Gardiner's Atlas of English History

  Maps from the 1892 book A School Atlas of English History.

• Gazetteer of British Place Names

  Contains the ancient or geographical County of over 50,000 place names in Britain along with modern administrative areas information.

• Genmaps

  Online old maps of Great Britain for genealogists and historians.

• Geographical Index | Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

  A PRONI guide to visualising the six counties of Northern Ireland through its historical civil and ecclesiastical territories. Use the interactive lists and maps to locate Townlands, Parishes, Baronies or Poor Law Unions.

• Get Mapping

  UK aerial photography.

• Guide to the Records of the Ordnance Survey

  From the National Archives of Ireland.

  • Ordnance Survey Database