Index to Ordnance survey memoirs of Ireland series
Subtitle: people and places
By: by Patrick McWilliams.
Contributors: Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Irish Studies.
Publisher: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast; US distibutor, Dufour Editions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Belfast; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 747
Subjects: Ordnance survey memoirs of Ireland -- Indexes; Names, Geographical -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); Names, Personal -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Gazetteers; Northern Ireland -- Biography -- Indexes
Genres: Gazetteers.; Indexes.
Other titles: Ordnance survey memoirs of Ireland : index of people and places; Index of people and places; O.S. memoirs index
Description: The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the Ordnance Survey maps, but were not published at the time. In these new editions they act as a 19th century Domesday book and are essential to the understanding of the cultural heritage of their communities. They document the landscape and situation, buildings and antiquities, land-holdings and population, and employment and livelihood of the parishes.