Taylor & Skinner Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1783 – 2nd edition.
Maps of the Roads of Ireland by George Taylor & Andrew Skinner was first published in 1778 from their survey of 1777. There was a second revised or as they called it a corrected edition published in 1783.
The title page below is from Taylor & Skinner’s 1783 2nd edition of ‘Maps of the Roads of Ireland’.
Taylor and Skinner Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1783 Title Page
This work was a survey of the roads of Ireland at the time and covers some 8000 miles or roads. The maps show amazing detail and include estates of prominent people. These maps are a very useful genealogy reference tool as they list a lot of surnames and names where families originated from in Ireland.
The image below is a scan of the explanation page taken from the 1st edition of 1778.
Taylor-and-Skinner-Explanation-Page-Maps-Roads-of-Ireland-1778
Click on the page to see a much larger scan. The Taylor & Skinner Explanation page reads as follows……The roads leading from Dublin are measured from His Majesties Castle Gate to the Market House of every Town and Cross Roads from the Market House of one Town to another. The list of the Stages at the top of the pages shows the distance from one Stage to another, also the Distance from Dublin or the Place where the Road is measured from. The index points out the pages where the Roads are laid down with the distances in Irish Miles and also British Statute Miles, with the County in which every Town lies.
Rates of Posting:- For a Chaise & Pair per Mile 1 shilling, 1 pence, for a Chaise & Four 1 shilling 8 pence and for a Saddle Horse 4 Pence.
Eleven Irish Miles are equal to Fourteen British and one Shilling and one Penny Irish Currency is one British Shilling.
The Authors beg leave to assure their very Respectable and numerous Subscribers and Public, that they have done their utmost endeavours to procure the proper names of places but if any mistakes are, tho they wish them to be few and of little importance entreat they may be ascribed to ye true cause, that is the difficulty of obtaining proper information, and the arbitrary manner of writing them. That as it is their duty in gratitude to a People to whom they owe the greatest favours, so it is their utmost desire to give satisfaction in every particular and will always consider it their highest honour, if they have in any measure succeeded.
Below that is a scale in Irish Miles which is 1.5 miles to the inch.
We currently have all 289 antique maps from this 2nd edition of Maps of the Roads of Ireland by Taylor & Skinner for sale. They have all been hand coloured recently. Please email if interested in a particular map. We will also be selling reproduction maps from high resolution scans we have taken of all these Ireland road maps.
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