The Spring Rice Committee (1824): Planning the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

The Spring Rice Committee (1824): Planning the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

Tailte Éireann - 200 years of official mapping activity

By Tailte Éireann

Date and time

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:30 - 20:00 GMT+1

Location

D08 F6E4

D08 F6E4 D08 F6E4 Dublin 8 Ireland

About this event

  • 1 hour 30 minutes

Programme Details


June 18th @ 6.30pm

The Spring Rice Committee (1824): Planning the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

Presented by Dr. Finnian O'Cionnaith


(Car parking spaces available)


Lecture Summary


The Ordnance Survey of Ireland has, over the past two hundred years, become interwoven with life on this island. Its origins, however, are often difficult to notice given the wealth of information produced since its foundation in 1824. This presentation examines how the topic of reforming land-based taxation in Ireland soon became a full-blown argument in Westminster, pitting the formidable Duke of Wellington against a small group of Irish MPs. To find a working solution, a Parliamentary committee sought to see how a new, detailed and highly accurate survey of the island could help ease growing social and economic tensions. The result set Ireland on a new cartographic course.

Dr. Finnian O'Cionnaith is a qualified land surveyor who studied the topic of this lecture in Ireland and the UK. He has written several books on cartographic and surveying history in pre-Ordnance Ireland. Currently, he works in the field of business intelligence and GIS.

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Tailte Éireann

Tailte Éireann is the State agency that provides a property registration system, property valuation service, and national mapping and surveying infrastructure for the State.

The agency was formed by the merger of the Property Registration Authority, the Valuation Office and Ordnance Survey Ireland.