Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

Hi, One thing omitted in previous posts was the impetuous to map townlands in the 1840s - taxation via rates. Some of the results of this was the creation of urban district councils (which became town councils in 2001 and were abolished in 2014) and rural district councils (long abolished).

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

On 19 August 2016 at 11:39, Stephen Roulston wrote: > Came across this, if not too late > > Townlands, parishes and baronies were the main geopolitical units > marked and named on the maps. These were standardised, defined and > fixed on the maps in a way they had never been

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

Came across this, if not too late Townlands, parishes and baronies were the main geopolitical units marked and named on the maps. These were standardised, defined and fixed on the maps in a way they had never been before. Through the choice of script style of the placename, linework marking the

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

Below is paraphrased (and a little extended) from the general introduction in the Place-names of Northern Ireland series published by the Northern Ireland Place-name Project, Department of Celtic, Queen’s University Belfast Earliest place names are found in mainly Irish language material,

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

On 15 August 2016 at 20:01, Killian Driscoll wrote: > On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hiya, >> >> As yous know, myself and Dave are doing a talk about townlands at the >>

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

On 15 August 2016 at 19:17, Rory McCann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hiya, > > As yous know, myself and Dave are doing a talk about townlands at the > global OSM conferences, State of the Map, in Brussels in September. > > Can anyone tell me

[OSM-talk-ie] History of Townlands - What can we put on a slide?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, As yous know, myself and Dave are doing a talk about townlands at the global OSM conferences, State of the Map, in Brussels in September. Can anyone tell me more about the history of townlands? Something nice to add to a slide? I've heard