• 2014- “Maps of the Estate of The Drapers’ Company 1857-1858”

These 312 A3 pages in full colour with hardback cover contain 66 maps; 27,000 acres; 8,541 fields; 180 tables; 1,407 leases; 1,386 tenants; 1,156 farms and 10 parishes!! The book also includes notes on each townland name and the valuation of tenements sourced from Griffith’s Valuation (1859). In addition there is a list of the leases up to 1858, which have been deposited by The Drapers’ Company in The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.


The value of this major publication has been greatly enhanced by Dr Bill Macafee’s scholarly introduction which highlights its usefulness for farmers, local historians, genealogists, geographers, social anthropologists and many others. In these hand-coloured and detailed maps one can find information on county, barony, parish, townland and farm boundaries; rivers and streams; roads and bridges; dams or weirs; forts and mounds; kilns and ruins; quarries; gravel or sand pits; wells or springs; bogs or uncultivated ground; farm layouts; fields and field sizes; houses and other buildings and tenants’ names.

ISBN  978-0-9575255-1-1

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2014- “Maps of the Estate of The Drapers’ Company 1857-1858”

  • Product Code: 2014
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