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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.

Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

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

AQUA 3 All Weather Maps

Online source of all maps Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland.

Arcanum Maps - The Historical Map Portal - Europe in the XIX. century

Maps of Europe in the 1800s. Includes maps of Europe, city maps, country maps, and cadastral maps.

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.

Atlas of Family Names in Ireland - Documents of Ireland

From the University College Cork

Atlas of Ireland

From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

Atlas of Northern Ireland

From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

Cartophilia

Cartophilia holds a library of over 4,500 maps and street plans of every historic county of England and Wales in high definition, Free to download for non-commercial use under Creative Commons.

Chapman Codes for Ireland

Civil Parish Maps for Ulster

County-Wise | Be County-Wise and get to know the Historic Counties!

Guides, information, and activities for the 92 historic counties in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Down Survey of Ireland

Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to Merchant Adventurers and English soldiers. Copies of these maps have survived in dozens of libraries and archives throughout Ireland and Britain, as well as in the National Library of France. This Project has brought together for the first time in over 300 years all the surviving maps, digitised them and made them available as a public online resource.

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 (Wayback Machine)

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.

GENUKI Church Database

Online searchable database of the geographic location of churches, registration districts etc in the UK, with details of their founding and closing dates. From GENUKI.

GENUKI: Administrative Regions of the British Isles, UK and Ireland

GENUKI: Country and County Codes - British Isles, UK and Ireland

These codes, a superset of the the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes, were created by Dr Colin Chapman. A more complete list of Chapman codes, also covering the 1975-1996 counties (not used in GENUKI) is to be found in Wikipedia.