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An 1837 traffic survey, one of 16 historical document copies in a folder (Ireland from Maps) that I found in the mid 90s in a visitor/interpretive/heritage centre shop. National Library of Ireland publication (1980), ISBN 0 907328 00 8.
(Could easily post cropped bits of it if anyone wanted to zoom in somewhere).
as posted above
it is one of the most interesting maps to come out of Ireland.
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Charles Babbage wrote: »
Ah yes, the old map colouring trick so beloved of politicians and their ilk.0 -
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In 1992, approximately 29000 rubber duckies fell off a cargo ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This is where they made landfall.
Copy and paste of a post I made about this in another thread a while back:In January 1992 a cargo ship going from Hong Kong to America overturned and 28,000 plastic ducks ended up being lost at sea. Although, strictly speaking not all were lost, as a good few have been found washed up on shores throughout the world and have helped to teach us about ocean currents. Likewise, the ones still floating in the sea have given a deeper understanding of ocean currents. The ducks have washed up along the shores of Hawaii, Alaska, South America, Australia and the Pacific Northwest, Newfoundland, Scotland whilst others have been found frozen in Arctic ice.
Quite a number of the ducks have been spotted in the North Pacific Gyre (see image below) - thus helping to identify a vortex of currents stretching between Japan to Alaska Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands. Roughly, it takes the three years for the ducks to do a full loop in the current.
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Charles Babbage wrote: »as posted above
Thank you - I missed that posting (haven't had time yet to read through this whole thread!). It's a great resource.
One of those maps (the network in 1837 I think) reminds me of a great childhood holiday, from London all the way to Dingle, also taking in various other places (happy hours hanging around the Limerick waterside by myself while the grownups were down the pub, for instance!), and apart from the Holyhead mail boat it was all by train (which must have been very affordable). I find traces of old railway lines fascinating, though sad at the same time (especially where all that's left is a placename in the middle of nowhere like Somebody's Halt).
Another one from the Map Library in London; a detail from photocopies of the Co. Donegal part of a large chart of the Irish coastal waters (very necessary to chart by the look of it!).
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Thought this was interesting and a little different to the thread.
The map of José Salvador Alvarenga's journey, a Salvadoran fisherman who was lost at sea near Costa Azul, Mexico and his boat drifted the whole way to the Marshall Islands over 14 months, himself found alive.
No motor, no oars, no anchor, no running lights.
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Not surprising it was a feat of survival and hard to track his exact journey with all this going on!Father Hernandez wrote: »
Thought this was interesting and a little different to the thread.
The map of José Salvador Alvarenga's journey, a Salvadoran fisherman who was lost at sea near Costa Azul, Mexico and his boat drifted the whole way to the Marshall Islands over 14 months, himself found alive.
No motor, no oars, no anchor, no running lights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Salvador_Alvarenga
(From the Handy Reference Atlas, pub. John Bartholomew 1949).
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JupiterKid wrote: »European countries that abolished their monarchies (in white) and the year they did so.
Did Ireland have a monarchy from 1921 to 1937?0 -
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The king wasn't in the state. As mentioned, jargon.Gregor Samsa wrote: »I don’t think that section allows for a Monarch at all. Furthermore, Article 12.1 declares the President to take “precedence over all other persons in the State”, which prevents us having a monarch.
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Not technically correctJohnnyFlash wrote: »
Both pitches on Aran islands are the same club. Same for belmullet.
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A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »I like how it it's an internal map of Roscommon clubs, kind of implies you wouldn't be wearing it beyond the county bounds. Where would they be going?
Ehhh... we've made it to Croke Park the last few years running, thank yiu very much. We like to punch above our weight. 0 -
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Is buying fancy buses that go nowhere for 11 months of the year punching above your weight?
Interesting to see how dark parts of Antrim and Down are on that map
Apart from being used for football, hurling and camogie at all age levels, the bus is rented out several days a week to schools, clubs, day care centres etc. etc. etc. and anybody else who wants to rent it. Drivers rotate on a voluntary basis.
It actually saves money over renting buses. It's purchase was part sponsored, you can purchase sponsorship on the bus and it's servicing was free for a couple of years.
It works out a lot cheaper than renting a bus every time one is needed.
And it looks good!
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A good map would be a map of everywhere it goes over 12 months.
Speaking of which, this is a map of the route of the 'Magic Bus', from London to Kathmandu, the longest ever scheduled bus journey at 9,600 Km. It ran up until the 1979 revolution in Iran.
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beggars_bush wrote: »Sponsors paid the lease/purchase for the bus
It's now owned by the county board
I wouldn't even bother replying ...….. :rolleyes:
They are probably from Sligo … :P 
"Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn
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JupiterKid wrote: »European countries that abolished their monarchies (in white) and the year they did so.
The should be more than one year for France. 0 -
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Bit of time to kill while waiting for some bread to bake......
Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself
Auriculas afini/quis non habit - the ends of the handles/one does not have
Nosce te ipsum - know theyself
O caput elleboro dignum - Oh capital profitably meet
hic est mundi......... - This is the point of the world and the glory of the matter is, this seat here is that we here excertur governments, this means ensuring that the human race is noisy, this reviving even civil! :rolleyes:
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Just one tiny quibble about Northern Ireland post GFA, but that's one of the coolest maps in the thread so farCapt'n Midnight wrote: »
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