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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.

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UK aerial photography.

Historical and Genealogical Maps of the World, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Decorative hand-coloured historical and genealogical maps of England and the English counties, an Irish family name map, a Scottish clan map, a historical map of Wales.

IreAtlas Townland Search Form

Search Ireland geographically by Townland, Parish, Poor Lay Union, Barony, or other.

Ireland's History in Maps - Irish History, Geography and Genealogy

Irish genealogy, history and geography, with a focus on ancient and medieval territories and septs.

Irish Family Maps

This brilliantly detailed map of Ireland lists over 700 traditional Irish surnames in the counties of their ancestry. Trace your Heritage on this Ancestral Map of Ireland.

Irish Historic Towns Atlas (Facebook)

Irish Historic Towns Atlas | Royal Irish Academy

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) project was established in 1981. The aim of the project is to record the topographical development of a selection of Irish towns both large and small. Each town is published separately as a fascicle or folder and includes a series of maps complemented by a detailed text section

Irish Local Names Explained

Complete online text of P.W. Joyce's Irish Local Names Explained.

Irish Place Names | Villages, towns and townlands in Ireland

Irish Place Names is an updated and faster database with nearly 64000 towns, villages and townlands. Easy to search and easy to filter records. If you are unsure where a place is or how it is spelled, the Irish Place Names database will help.

Irish Townlands

The Irish OpenStreetMap community are currently actively tracing all townland boundaries from GSGS 3906 map sheets into the OpenStreetMap database.

Kane Ancestral Map of Ireland

Map for sale.

Library of Congress - 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.

Logainm.ie | Placenames Database of Ireland

This is a comprehensive management system for data, archival records and placenames research conducted by the State. The public website is primarily aimed at journalists and translators, students and teachers, historians and researchers in genealogy.

Maps of Ireland

Maps of Ireland, including: Map of Irish Counties; Detailed Map of Ireland; Map from Kinealy's; This Great Calamity; Poor Law Unions, 1842-1849; Public Works, 1846-1847; Cholera Map, 1848-1850,Quiz Map of Irish Counties; The Provinces of Ireland; and Belfast Neighborhoods. From Thomas J. Archdeacon, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.

Notes on Old Irish Maps

Notes on some early Irish maps, including Petty's Down Survey.

Old Maps: Purveyors of Reproduction, Antique and Historic Maps, Antique Paintings and Prints

Reproductions of 17th Century maps of English counties, the provinces of Ireland and Wales, and of the rest of world including the East Coast of USA. This site also has interesting info on British and Irish Stately Homes, if your ancestor was well-to-do.

Old Ordnance Survey Maps for Ireland

Commonly called the Godfrey maps, these maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. More than a thousand titles have been issued in this major series of reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps of towns throughout Britain and Ireland. The Maps are highly detailed, taken from the 1/2500 plans and reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile. They cover towns in great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories, churches, mills, canals, tramways and even minutiae such as dockside cranes, fountains, signal posts, pathways, sheds, wells, etc. Each map includes historical notes on the area concerned. Many also include extracts from contemporary directories. The maps are neatly folded, often with an early photograph on the cover. The maps are ideal for local historians, transport historians, and family historians, or simply those with an interest in the town they live in or have visited.

One Place Studies

A one-place-study (OPS) considers your ancestors in their physical and social context. By learning about your ancestors' neighbours and studying the historical environment and events, big and small, that took place within a village, you can gain a greater understanding of your own genealogy.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap Ireland as an entity, provides an advocate voice for the OpenStreetMap project on the island of Ireland, in relation to interacting with other Open initiatives.