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11. A Geographicall Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland. Collected from ye actual Survey made by Sr. William Petty corrected and amended (London, [1689]).
The book contains 35 provincial and county maps.
Sir William Petty (1623–87) surveyed and mapped Ireland for the English Commonwealth during the 1650s. The process of mapping was linked to the Cromwellian land confiscations, and this 1689 edition also had political undertones in the context of the conflict then underway between the forces of William III and James II in Ireland.
This book may have been intended to help readers in England to follow the progress of the military campaigns in Ireland they were reading about in the press.
This copy was purchased in June 1925 to replace a copy noted as missing from Marsh’s Library in 1767.
Citation:
11. A Geographicall Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland. Collected from ye actual Survey made by Sr. William Petty corrected and amended (London, [1689]).,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed July 4, 2025,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/413
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