Author : William Staveley Ferguson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Maps and Views of Derry, 1600-1914 by : William Staveley Ferguson
Download or read book Maps and Views of Derry, 1600-1914 written by William Staveley Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of a number of ancillary publications to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series. Written by the renowned local historian W.S. Ferguson in the 1960s and 1970s, it brings together an inventory of maps and views of the city of Derry and its environs, which Ferguson was researching and compiling until his death in 1972. By then his work was virtually complete with all his entries drafted. In 2003 the project was adopted by the Royal Irish Academy and published the following year. Special maps such as the Phillips map from 1689 are reproduced in full in this publication. This book makes available the Ferguson manuscript held in the archives in Belfast, PRONI, which for so long was used by scholars and local historians. Foreword by J.H. Andrews.This is an ancillary publication to Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 15, Derry Londonderry by Avril Thomas.