Selected Sources
The following is a selected bibliography:
Alder, Ken
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Free Press, 2003
Andrews, J. H.
A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975
Andrews, J. H.
Shapes of Ireland: Maps and Their Makers, 1564–1839
Geography Publications, Dublin, 1997
Anon
“Ordnance Survey in Ireland: An Illustrated Record“,
The Ordnance Survey of Ireland and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 1991.
Berggren, J. L. and Alexander Jones
Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
Princeton University Press, 2000
Borre, Kai
“Fundamental Triangulation Networks in Denmark”
Journal of Geodetic Science 4 (2014): 74–86
Butler, Samuel
A Statistical Account of the Parish of Tamlaght Ard (Magilligan), Diocese of Derry
Manuscript (PRONI), Magilligan, 1824
Clarke, Alexander Ross
Account of the Observations and Calculation of the Principal Triangulation (and of the Figure, Dimensions and Mean Specific Gravity of the Earth as Derived Therefrom)
George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London, 1858
Close, Colonel Sir Charles
The Early Years of the Ordnance Survey
Institution of Royal Engineers, 1926
Crane, Nicholas
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure That Shaped the World
Penguin Random House, 2021
Day, Angelique and Patrick McWilliams (eds.)
Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 11: Parishes of County Londonderry III (131–5)
Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 1991
(Memoir by John O’Donovan and George Petrie, 1835)
The Economist
The Economist Style Guide
The Economist, London, 2005
Friel, Brian
“Translations”,
Faber and Faber, 1981.
Gordon, Alan
The Regiment That Mapped the World: The Story of the 42 Survey Engineer Regiment
Royal Engineers, 2021
Grann, David
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Simon & Schuster, 2023
Haasbroek, N. D.
Gemma Frisius, Tycho Brahe and Snellius and Their Triangulations
Rijkscommissie voor Geodesie, Delft, 1968
Herity, Michael (ed.),
Ordnance Survey Letters Donegal.
Dublin: Four Masters Press, 2000.
Kirwan, Richard
If Maps Could Speak
Londubh Books, 2010
McLennan, John Ferguson
Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E., F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835–1840.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1867.
O’Brien, R. Barry
Thomas Drummond: Life and Letters
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1889
O’Cionnaith, Finnian
The Origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey: Taxation, Townlands and Topography
Four Courts Press, 2024
Owen, Tim and Elaine Pillbeam
Ordnance Survey: Mapmakers to Britain since 1791
Ordnance Survey, 1992
Portlock, J. E.
Memoir of the Life of Major-General Colby
Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London, 1869
Schiaparelli, Ernesto
The Intact Tomb of the Architect Kha in the Necropolis of Thebes
English translation, Adarte-Turin, 2008
Seymour, W. A. (ed.)
A History of the Ordnance Survey
Dawson, 1980
Smith, Adam
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
London, 1776
Sobel, Dava
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Fourth Estate, London, 1998
Wainwright, Alfred
The Eastern Fells
Frances Lincoln, 2009 (special edition)
Taylor, W. R.
An Outline of the Re-Triangulation of Northern Ireland
HMSO, Belfast, 1967
Yolland, William
An Account of the Measurement of the Lough Foyle Base with Its Verification and Extension by Triangulation
Board of Ordnance, 1847
