Maps Talk

John mac

Just for anyone interested in Maps and are in the area,

Wednesday March 2nd at 8:00 pm Castlebar Library hosts a talk by Richard Kirwan entitled ‘If maps could speak’.

Richard is a former director of Ordnance Survey Ireland. He was born in Waterford and qualified as a civil engineer at University College Cork and was director of the OS from 1996 until his retirement in 2...006. Richard presents ‘If maps could speak’ an engaging combination of memoir, history and stories about people and places.

His presentation will take his audience behind the scenes into the minds and works of early map-makers with accounts of their struggles in pre-Famine Ireland.

He outlines the efforts of OS staff to bring the mapping of Ireland up to date in the final decades of the twentieth century and his own personal contribution to this effort.