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Glimpses of Ireland’s Past The Ordnance Survey Memoir Drawings:
topography and techniqueAngélique Day
22 October 2014
President Mary McAleese arriving at the Royal Irish Academy, 28 September,1998 Secretary of the RIA left of her, Patrick Buckley, Brian Walker (IIS) on her near
right, and Dr Michael Herity (President of the Academy) on her far right
The Ordnance Survey in Irelandand the Ordnance Survey Memoirs
• ‘This great national work’ Report from the select committee on the survey and valuation of Ireland (1824)
• ‘This great and comprehensive thought, this truly imperial idea’ Dr William Stokes in his Life… of Petrie (1868)
Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801-1879)Assistant director of Ordnance Survey in Ireland 1828-48; census commissioner
1841;Famine Relief Commission 1846; Board of Works 1846-9; Under-secretary for Ireland under Lord Aberdeen 1853-68.
John O’Donovan (1806-61), Irish scholar worked on OS from 1830 (temporarily suspended 1833 for 6 months) to 1840.
James Henthorn Todd (1805-69), librarian and scholar, founder of the school St Columba’s, helped Larcom to ensure that the Ordnance Survey Memoir
manuscripts were preserved in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
Penannular brooch by John Stokes, drawn in 1838, found in Ballymena but not mentioned in text; later owned by George Benn who presented it to the
BNHPS and later went into the Ulster Museum collection
Gold gorget found in Rosegarland [Rosgarran] in 1833 drawn by Charles W. Ligar, 21 June 1836 . Found by Robert McCanary (Desertmartin) who sold it to Robert Ogilby of Pellipar.
Then lent to the Royal Irish Academy and later presented by George Greene MRIA with outer edge cut off (1 dwt.) Now in the National Museum of Ireland.