Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690-1830
Author : Finnian Ó Cionnaith
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781801510578
Author : Finnian Ó Cionnaith
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781801510578
Author : Finnian Ó Cionnaith
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2022-04-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781801510141
Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although we are accustomed to seeing these beautiful documents illustrate research on the early modern period, rarely has the complex story of the processes, technology and people that led to their creation been told. Key to this tale is the role of the land surveyor, the technical specialist who physically measured and plotted Ireland's landscape, and whose work was fundamentally intertwined with wider political, economic and social factors that shaped national identity. This book explores the profession of surveying and those who practised it between the era of repressive land forfeitures (ending 1703) and the formation of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (1825). It uses the careers of three prominent surveyors - Gabriel Stokes (b. 1682, d. 1768), Robert Gibson (d. 1761) and John Longfield (b. c.1775, d. 1833) - as guides to the complex, competitive and vibrant world of independent commercial land measurement. In doing so it exposes the efforts taken by generations of land surveyors to capture the island's landscape, and meet cust
Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773518179
How has Irish nature been studied? How has it been expressed in literature and popular culture? How has it influenced, and been influenced by, political, economic, and social change? These long-neglected questions are pursued in Nature in Ireland, a pioneering collection of original essays by leading naturalists, science writers, and cultural historians who bring us from the geological prehistory of Ireland to the environmental threats of the late twentieth century.
Author : Sophie Junge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1000782026
This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity formation. Collectively, the book’s authors map a constellation of interlocking photographic histories and survey practices, decentering Europe as the origin of camera-based surveillance. The volume charts a conversation across continents - connecting Europe, Africa, the Arab World, Asia, and the Americas. It does not segregate places, histories, and traditions but rather puts them in dialogue with one another, establishing solidarity across ever-shifting national, linguistic, racial, religious, and ethnic. Refusing the neat organization of survey photographs into national or imperial narratives, these essays celebrate the messy, cross-cultural reverberations of landscape over the past 170 years. Considering the visual, social, and historical networks in which these images circulate, this anthology connects the many entangled and political histories of photography in order to reframe survey practices and the multidimensionality of landscape as an international phenomenon. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, history of photography, and landscape history.
Author : A. W. Skempton
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780727729392
This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.
Author : Francis W. Steer
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Cartographers
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Burke
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Gentry
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Heraldry
ISBN :
Author : David Buisseret
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1996-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226079905
But these hand-drawn maps, often displaying elaborate cartouches and elegant coats of arms, served as far more than mere records of property ownership - they were treasured works of art, exhibited for pleasure and as symbols of wealth, and passed down from generation to generation.