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Title: A new map of Ireland divided into its provinces, counties and baronies, wherein are distinguished the bishopricks, borroughs, barracks, bogs, passes, bridges &c. with the principal roads, and the common reputed miles

Dates

• Coverage: 1720

Publishers

• [London] : Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court in ye Strand, I. Bowles at Mercers Chapple in Cheapside, P. Overton Map & Printseller near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet, and T. Bowles Print & Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church Yard. And by I. King Map and Printseller at the Globe in the Poultry, [ca. 1720]

Summary

"NB. This map has all the improvements of Hen. Pratt viz. the roads, computed miles from town to town &c." Dedication: To His Grace Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, Ld. High Treasurer of Great Britain, Ld. Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold, Ld. Leutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, Knight of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter &c. this map is humbly dedicated by your Grace's most humble Servant H. Moll Geographer 1714. Relief shown pictorially. Table: A catalogue of ye towns & places, where barracks are erected, for quartering ye standing army ... Inset (Separate scale): Untitled locator map, showing western Europe. Explanation: cityes & large towns, boroughs, market towns, villages and gentle. seats, archbishopricks, bishopricks, barracks, redoubts or small barrac., roads, ferryes, bogs, forts. City plans: Dublin, Corke, Limrick, the Harbour of Kinsale, Waterford, Gallway, the Isle of St. Patricks Purgatory in the county of Dunnagall and Gyants Cawsway in the county of Antrium, the last two with text. Date of publication from Tooley. "Herman Moll's A New Map of Ireland ..., c.1720 edition (with 'improvments' by Henry Pratt)"--cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, vol. 3, p. 457.

Subjects

• Ireland
• Roads—Ireland—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Ireland—Maps—Early works to 1800
• Maps—Ireland—1720
• Road maps—Ireland—1720
• Other

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-10.61, -5.3256, 55.4492, 51.222)
• Geometry: BBOX (-10.61, -5.3256, 55.4492, 51.222)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Moll, Herman, -1732. A new map of Ireland divided into its provinces, counties and baronies, wherein are distinguished the bishopricks, borroughs, barracks, bogs, passes, bridges &c. with the principal roads, and the common reputed miles. [London] : Printed for H. Moll over against Devereux Court in ye Strand, I. Bowles at Mercers Chapple in Cheapside, P. Overton Map & Printseller near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet, and T. Bowles Print & Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church Yard. And by I. King Map and Printseller at the Globe in the Poultry, [ca. 1720]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-7w62fb723

Format

TIFF

Languages

• eng