November Presentation AGM

Tuesday 11 November at 8pm in Skerries Bowling Club

Irish Ordnance Survey historical mapping, with particular reference to Skerries by Paul Mulligan

The talk will include the following topics: How the Ordnance Survey set about the task of mapping Ireland; Ordnance Survey historical maps relevant to the Skerries area (at one-inch, six-inch and 25-inch scales) and online resources for Irish OS historical maps.

About the speaker: Paul Mulligan, born in Co. Longford in 1952, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1974 with an honours degree in Geology. He worked as a geologist for 25 years. Through a long-standing engagement with maps he developed an interest in archaeology and history. He is the author of A Short Guide to Irish Antiquities, published in 2005 and republished in 2016. During the period 2007-2022 he worked in the Glucksman Map Library in Trinity College, which holds the largest collection of printed maps in Ireland. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey maps. He is also the author of Irish Ordnance Survey maps: A User’s Guide, which was published by Wordwell in 2024 to coincide with the bicentenary of the establishment of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland in 1824.

Time and Tide

Volumes of papers from the society’s archive will be on sale before the talk.

Time and Tide is available for online purchase by clicking here.

Annual Membership fee for season 2024/ 25

The Annual Membership fee, due from October, remains €10 for 2024/25. Many thanks to those who have already paid. You can renew at the the next meeting or renew online here.

Images from the archive: Monsignor Casey

Monsignor Richard Casey was Parish Priest in Skerries from 1949 to 1960. In this photograph, taken outside the Carnegie Library in Strand Street, he is opening An Tostal, the festival created in the early 1950s to celebrate Irish Life.

Committee Members 2024/25

Chair – Oona Roycroft
Vice Chair – Seamus Murray
Hon Secretary – Stephanie Bourke
Hon Treasurer – Brendan Grimes
Hon Librarian – Maree Baker
Hon Archivist – Jean Harrison
PRO – Bernadette McKenna
with Maura Duggan, Bill Kee and Carmel Power.