Map

Collection object


1988.0168
Map, photograph of. Limerick 1690-91. French. No title. Heavily quartered by folding (separate sheets?). Shows Irishtown and Englishtown. West at top. Crude compass, cross, on Abbey River. Scale top l.: Eshelle de (scale 1000) Grieds? d'Angleterre. Irishtown has dotted star shaped fortifications over solid line star shaped outworks, and a dotted citadel between Irishtown and the river, partly overlapping Mungret gate and street. Fields or gardens outside walls marked, and inscriptions are variously directed, many upside down. BL identification, LIV/II, upside down in top r. corner. C17th