Josie and List, Your post about your upcoming trip to Ireland took me back to the three-week trip my parents and I took around the country in 1984 -- a week in Dublin-Dun Laoghaire, a week on a self-drive houseboat up and down the River Shannon, and a week in a house by the sea near Kenmare in Co. Cork. I'm a map freak, so beforehand I bought and for months pored over the Ordnance Survey maps for those areas, having enormous fun planning our daily car trips around the regions. Just last week I unpacked some of my memorabilia from that trip. Among those things were all my Irish OS maps. On deciding what memorabilia I could bear parting with, I found myself saving the maps and discarding much of the other stuff I'd collected and carried around with me as I moved house several times since '84. My point: If you don't already know about these maps, I urge you to consider buying the relevant ones for your trip. They come in several scales. I especially like the 1:50,000 scaled ones -- they have details that I've never found on any maps for the U.S. A Web search tells me that the Irish OS maps are available at http://www.osi.ie/Home.aspx . I believe the Discovery Series maps are in the scale I liked best, and that maps 51, 57, and 58 cover Co. Clare. In a quick Web search I didn't find anyplace in the US that sells the maps, but maybe someone else can suggest a US source. PJ in Texas

PJ, The Discovery maps which cover Clare are 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65. See "Paper Maps and Documents" at http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1548&sid=1aaef429ff4d924 6e5b80f6f6f7d03c4 for further information including links to some of the companies that ship worldwide. See http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/maps/index.htm for historical maps of Clare (including the 1842 Ordnance Survey maps) which are very useful for Clare genealogical research. Paddy -----Original Message----- From: irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pjsalis@hal-pc.org Sent: 16 June 2013 19:58 To: Clare list Subject: [IRL-CLARE] maps of Ireland Josie and List, Your post about your upcoming trip to Ireland took me back to the three-week trip my parents and I took around the country in 1984 -- a week in Dublin-Dun Laoghaire, a week on a self-drive houseboat up and down the River Shannon, and a week in a house by the sea near Kenmare in Co. Cork. I'm a map freak, so beforehand I bought and for months pored over the Ordnance Survey maps for those areas, having enormous fun planning our daily car trips around the regions. Just last week I unpacked some of my memorabilia from that trip. Among those things were all my Irish OS maps. On deciding what memorabilia I could bear parting with, I found myself saving the maps and discarding much of the other stuff I'd collected and carried around with me as I moved house several times since '84. My point: If you don't already know about these maps, I urge you to consider buying the relevant ones for your trip. They come in several scales. I especially like the 1:50,000 scaled ones -- they have details that I've never found on any maps for the U.S. A Web search tells me that the Irish OS maps are available at http://www.osi.ie/Home.aspx . I believe the Discovery Series maps are in the scale I liked best, and that maps 51, 57, and 58 cover Co. Clare. In a quick Web search I didn't find anyplace in the US that sells the maps, but maybe someone else can suggest a US source. PJ in Texas ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Paddy, I see now at http://shop.osi.ie/Shop/images/Tourist/Images%20Catalogue%202013/eire_map.gif that all those maps you listed do include parts of Clare. My vision was too limited. And the link you gave to ourlibrary.ca was a gold mine of info. Thanks for that. PJ > PJ, > > The Discovery maps which cover Clare are 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, > 65. > > > See "Paper Maps and Documents" at > http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1548&sid=1aaef429ff4d924 > 6e5b80f6f6f7d03c4 for further information including links to some of the > companies that ship worldwide. > > See http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/maps/index.htm for historical > maps of Clare (including the 1842 Ordnance Survey maps) which are very > useful for Clare genealogical research. > > Paddy