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26. Memory and the Map
The surveyors moved through a landscape haunted by the remnants of an older Gaelic order. They…
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25. Townlands and Boundaries
Ireland’s townlands were defined and surveyed two hundred years ago, becoming part of the administrative and…
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24. Draggers of the Chain
From Framework to Field –“the Red Coats were just across the foot of Cnoc na Mona,…
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23. Chapter 5: Introduction. The Rod of Kha
The Ghosts of Mountjoy stretch further back than the Ordnance Survey. This story begins with the…
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22. The Surveyors on the Summits
The triangulation of Ireland was both a scientific and a human achievement, forged through physical endeavour…
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21. “Property has its duties as well as its rights.”
Thomas Drummond: surveyor, reforming civil servant and advocate of fair government– life after the Survey. Thomas…
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20a. Drummond’s Letter.
“SLIEVE SNAGHT,“Friday night, Nov. 11, 1825. “My Dear Mother, … I am perched upon the top…
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20. Into the Limelight
From Divis to Donegal Slieve Snaght, the “Snowy Mountain”, rises modestly just over two thousand feet…
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19. Inveterate Haze and Fogginess
Drummond and the Problem of Visibility [i] From the summits of Ireland, when the weather was…
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18. On Exalted Hills
The endurance, innovation, and romance involved in measuring Ireland from remote mountain tops during the triangulation.…
