Marking Maps - OS200, Part 2

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), the Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland (HERoNI), Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI), the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) would like to invite you to celebrate this historic milestone at a two part event at PRONI.

6:30-7:00pm - Launch of 'Mapping Monuments' and 'OS200' exhibitions

7pm - Wine Reception

7:30pm - RGS Lecture: Guest Speaker -Professor Keith Lilley (QUB)

Surveying the Surveyors--Mapping ‘Hidden’ Geographies of Ireland's Ordnance Survey

It is two hundred years since the Ordnance Survey (OS) began its work in Ireland. New research using digital and spatial technologies has yielded fascinating insights into how Ireland's OS six-inch maps were made 'in the field'. This talk takes us on a journey following the footsteps of the OS surveyors of the 1820-30s, and reveals the 'hidden' geographies of their encounters with people and places as they traversed Ireland's townlands and landscapes.

Host or Publisher DfC Engaged Communities Group