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“It was the first country in the whole world to be mapped at such a scale.” On today’s RTÉ News at One, UL’s Dr Catherine Porter discussed the OS200 Project and the new digital archive of Ireland’s first ordnance survey maps. LISTEN: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c… #StayCurious

Geographies of Engagement-Since launching in June we’ve had almost 3000 people from 32 countries visit our new OS web resource. We’ve got a big update in the works just in time for @IGC2024Dub next week so keep checking back! Royal Irish Academy Library Tailte Éireann Ordnance Survey NI Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)

Wait, there's more @IGC2024Dub with our session on the Ordnance Survey in Ireland, drawing on The National Lottery Heritage Fund NI We are now Research Ireland Arts and Humanities Research Council including OS200 with Dr Frances Kane zenobiewan Dr Catherine Porter 🏳️‍🌈🌳😷, with something from me on 'mapping heritage' 👇

Delegates at #igc2024dub  are invited to visit the OS200 exhibition showcasing the workings and archive of the Irish Ordnance Survey currently on show in the Royal Irish Academy between 10am and 5pm each day.

Our 'Mapping Ireland Through Time' public engagement event Royal Irish Academy as part of @IGC2024Dub has kicked off with a full house welcomed by Prof Cath Brown and Keith Lilley

Loads of people turned out for @IGC2024Dub public event “Mapping Ireland through Time” hosted by Royal Irish Academy Library and included OS200 #OS200 project members Dr Catherine Porter 🏳️‍🌈🌳😷 and Keith Lilley

A fabulous evening in the Royal Irish Academy listening to wonderful insights into maps from SW Ireland in the 1500s, O’Connells funeral and disease in Dublin, OS200 from Dr Catherine Porter 🏳️‍🌈🌳😷 and the wonders of community mapping Rachel McArdle! Food for the soul. @IGC2024Dub

Only managed to get one image from OS200 session at @IGC2024Dub because I got too into the papers! #os200

The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography is a funding opportunity for anyone who wishes to work with historical map collections in the UK. Deadline for applications is 1 November maphistory.info/harley.html

Ordnance Survey of NI conference 😍 great to be here talking on @irel

Environment and landscape change witnessed through the OS Maps and Memoirs. 'Its [the parish] contents are rapidly decreasing by the action of the ocean and Lough Foyle', Rev John Graham on Parish of Magilligan, OS Memoirs (1833) Ordnance Survey of NI Tailte Éireann #OS200

📢 NEW BLOG POST 📢 Read the last blog post in our Ordnance Survey series, celebrating 200 years since the first survey of Ireland. The focus on the Memoirs, held here in the Library. Read Meadhbh Murphy's fascinating blog about emigration & crime notes! ria.ie/blog/os200-spo…

Made some new maps ahead of a talk looking at 19th century Ordnance Survey work in Cavan this Thursday at Cavan Library Service. Anyone have a guess what they might show? OS200 Cavan County Council

I'm honoured to be asked to deliver this year's D A Chart Annual Map Seminar PRONI on 31st Oct. when I'll be talking all things #OS200 @Irelandmapped. It's online and free to attend, but you must register through EventBrite #LoveIrishResearch shorturl.at/eqg9p

Spotted this Ordnance Survey benchmark in #Thurles today at St Bridget's Grave Yard (extract from 25-inch historic map via Tailte Éireann on GeoHive Map Viewer).

Wonderful news!

Did you miss our talk PRONI in October? Don't fret, you can now watch it online and learn more about what the project team has been up to: youtube.com/watch?v=1TUaWo… University Of Limerick Queen's University Belfast 🎓

The #OS200 collaborative events continue! Our exhibition will open PRONI on 21st Nov with a series of in-person talks in cooperation with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Ordnance Survey of NI and #HERoNI. Get your tickets here: shorturl.at/gC3ru and here: shorturl.at/x4uRW

“I have caught a very severe cold, the consequence of my sudden transition from the foggy air of Dublin to the thin and cold air of the Cuailgnian Mountains. If however tomorrow will prove a fine day… I shall venture home..." (JOD, 25th Feb 1836) #OS200 We feel you, John!