OS200 is a 3-year project jointly funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which aims to gather historic Ordnance Survey (OS) maps and texts, currently held in disparate archives, to form a single freely accessible online resource for academic and public use. This digital platform will reconnect the First Edition Six-Inch Maps with the OS Memoirs, Letters and Name Books. In this blog series, we will highlight some of the OS archival materials held in the RIA Library.

This conference launched the new digital resource, OS200 A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey, and brought together project partners to discuss their findings.

09.45 – 10.30: Keynote – Dr Finnian Ó Cionnaith (Independent)

“A peculiar survey…for our peculiar purpose” : Founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

11.00 – 12.30: Session 1 – Ireland Mapped

‘Surveying the surveyors’ (Professor Keith Lilley and Dr Catherine Porter)

‘Language, place and the Ordnance Survey Name Books’ (Drs Aengus Finnegan, Frances Kane and Professor Mícheal Ó Mannín)

‘Curating the OS Collections’ (Barbara McCormack and Meadhbh Murphy, RIA)

13.45 – 14.30 : Keynote – Dr Katherine McDonough (Lancaster University)

‘Doing Digital History with Ordnance Survey Maps’

14.30 – 16.00: Session 2 – Outreach and Outputs

‘Widening OS200 – Residences and Engagement’ (Drs Niamh NicGhabhann and Frances Kane)

‘From Baseline to Database: Capturing the Digital Footprints of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland (Dr Zenobie Garrett)

‘Curating Digital Collections’ (Kevin Long and Stuart Kenny, DRI)

16.30 – 17.15: Keynote – Professor Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine)

‘The Colonial Map – the British Surveys Overseas’

17.15 – 17.30: Closing Remarks