Place-Names and Mapping

PLACE-NAMES AND MAPPING

	Archaeology.ie The National Monuments Service hosts this excellent website. It includes a monuments database with map links to all of the registered monuments in the Republic of Ireland.
	Bodleian Library Map Room The Map Room has an extensive range of books on cartography and GIS. A large selection of atlases are available, together with journals, gazetteers and other reference works.
	An Brainse Logainmneacha/Placenames Branch Déanann an Brainse Logainmneacha taighde ar logainmneacha na hÉireann. Soláthraíonn an Brainse foirmeacha oifigiúla Gaeilge de logainmneacha d'eagrais phoiblí nuair a iarrtar iad. Government department responsible for researching Irish placenames and providing Irish placename forms to public bodies on request.
	British Library map collections Search or browse the British Library map catalogue.
	Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann/Placenames database of Ireland Searchable site run from DCU.
	Griffiths Valuation maps The online database has accompanying OS maps showing individual plots in each townland.
	Harvard Map Collection Search Harvard's print and digitial map collections.
	National Monments Service Includes interactive maps, which zoom up to aerial photograph level. A searchable database lists every national monument in the country.
	Placenames NI - The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project Online database, with searchable maps and index, giving the history of the 9,600 townland names of Northern Ireland.
	Ordnance Survey of Ireland Historical Mapping Archive The first editition OS 6-inch maps of all parts of Ireland are now available online. Subscription service. There is also a free map viewer on the OSi site, searchable by county, townland name etc.
	Pointer The Pointer site includes a townland name search facility with accompanying maps and a history of each townland name in Northern Ireland, run by the Northern Ireland Place-name Project.
	Scottish Place-Name Society The Society, launched in February 1996, exists for the support of all aspects of toponymic studies in Scotland, and in particular the work of the Scottish Place-Name Database at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh.
	Townlands of County Monaghan Monaghan County Council's website gives free access to 1:50,000 OS maps and aerial photographs for the county, searchable by townland name.
	Townland Database Searchable database listing townlands in every county, giving acreage, barony, civil parish and PLU.
	UK National Archives, early Irish maps Early Irish maps from State Papers c.1558 - c.1610, available online at affordable cost.
	Ulster Place-name Society The Society is surveying place-names in Ulster and publishes both a journal, Ainm, and stand-alone books giving the results of the areas they have surveyed.
	Taylor and Skinner Road Map of Ireland 1778 Colour maps, free website.