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IHTA Town Type Series: Early Modern, Gaelic and Plantation Towns
Thursday, 21 May 2020The fourth essay on IHTA Town Types sees Raymond Gillespie, MRIA, Chair, Irish Historic Towns Atlas and lecturer in Maynooth University, discuss the development of different types of towns from c. 1500 to c. 1700.

IHTA Town Type Series: Anglo-Norman Towns
Wednesday, 13 May 2020In the third IHTA town type essay, Michael Potterton, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, focuses on the buildling boom of Irish towns from the twelth to fourteenth centuries.

IHTA Town Type Series: Viking Towns
Wednesday, 6 May 2020As part of IHTA Online, Howard Clarke, MRIA and editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, explores the traditional Irish Viking towns and other towns associated with them.

IHTA Town Type Series: Monastic Towns
Wednesday, 29 April 2020As part of IHTA Online, Anngret Simms, MRIA and founding editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, discusses the native Gaelic town type – the Monastic Town.

Oireachtas Library Treasures series: Maps!
Monday, 20 April 2020Sarah Gearty selects and discusses her favourite maps from the Oireachtas Library Treasures series

IHTA Youghal now available online
Thursday, 2 April 2020Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 27 Youghal by David Kelly and Tadhg O'Keeffe, published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2015, is now available to browse for free as part of IHTA Online.

John Andrews MRIA
Wednesday, 20 November 2019We remember John Andrews, MRIA, who died on Friday (15 November 2019) in Chepstow, Wales. Founding father of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, historical geographer and renowned historian of Irish cartography, he was a...

The DIB and 'Renaissance Galway'
Tuesday, 15 October 2019To celebrate the publication of Renaissance Galway: delineating the seventeenth-century city by Paul Walsh, we publish the DIB entry on Walter Lynch, by Terry Clavin, below. A vicar of St Nicholas's collegiate church,...

Renaissance Galway celebrated with Seminar and Launch in Galway
Monday, 14 October 2019The pictorical map, subject of Renaissance Galway: delineating the seventeenth-century city by Paul Walsh was the subject of a seminar dedicated to the map and celebrated at the launch by Cllr Denis Lyons, Deputy Mayor...

Renaissance Galway launched at the Milwaukee Irish Fest
Tuesday, 27 August 2019The Irish Historic Towns Atlas attended the 2019 Milwaukee Irish Fest to showcase the new publication, Renaissance Galway.