In ink-ruled columns, under the headings (by barony in the case of counties): 'Parishes', 'Places/Townlands', 'Number of People', 'Tituladoes Names', 'English (and Scots)', 'Irish'. In at least two different clerical hands, with the county totals on the first leaves apparently in Petty's hand,...
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXVI A-BB. Manuscript maps by a single unidentified cartographer, of Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio (London, 1685), the first printed atlas of Ireland, based on the Down Survey for those areas which it covered, and on earlier surveys of western areas, chiefly the Strafford survey of 1636-1640; [late 1650s-early 1660s]. There are no scale bars, but the scales are reduced from those of the Down Survey maps as follows: county maps 2 Irish miles to the inch [1:161,240]; province...
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Maps and Plans: Ireland: Sir William Petty, political economist: MS maps for the Hiberniae Delineatio by Sir William Petty: late 1650s-early 1660s.
PETTY PAPERS. VOLS. XIX-XXIV. 'Down Survey' of various baronies in Ireland, consisting of maps and terriers commissioned from Petty by the Cromwellian government as a preliminary to the transfer of lands confiscated from Irish Catholics after the rising of 1641 to Protestant soldiers and 'adventurers' (or government investors); 1655-1659. Scales are variable, chosen from a range of multiples to fit standard sizes of paper. 'Down survey' was the traditional land surveyor's term for a survey i...
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Surveys and Rentals: Maps and Plans: Sir William Petty, political economist: Ireland 'Down Survey': Oliver Cromwell of England: Maps and schedules of the `Down Survey' of Ireland surveyed by Sir William Petty: 1655-1659.
PETTY PAPERS. VOL. XXV. Petty's account, written in the third person, of the making of the Down Survey, with the heading added in the hand of James Matthews, 'Sir William Petty's History of the Survey of Ireland in 18 chapters'; [late 1659-early 1660]. Chiefly in a single clerical hand, with a f...