Great footage to see. Canon McHale had such a huge interest in the history of killala and surrounding areas. So looking forward to seeing more footage and listening to the stories associated to the different areas.
The survey was done between 1825 and 1847 Thomas frederick Colby was in charge of the measuring of the island starting in Spencer dock Dublin first place was divis mountain in Belfast and first completed survey was co Derry they marked stones as they went along these corresponded at sea level height from sea level to trigonometry spheres on tops of mountains they used trigonometry to get measurements after using gunters chain to measure John o Donovan was part of the same survey he worked with the survey department and collected rare manuscripts such as the four masters 14 hundreds history and the down survey 16 hundreds history later in life he became a professor in Celtic languages he was related to o Donovan rossa He was in fermanagh cavan fermanagh in June 1830 , the tide books he wrote and the survey can be viewed online or in the national gallery of Ireland in Dublin they translated townlands names from Irish to English amalgamated some and recorded tax payed in certain townlands type of housing crops and places of historical cultural importance and they recorded any previous surveys There called tide books You can also view o Donovan's personal diary of places he stayed passed through his correspondence with colleagues, very interesting, that's a copy of o Donovan's tide book he has in his hand a re print that was done in 1920s
Great footage to see. Canon McHale had such a huge interest in the history of killala and surrounding areas. So looking forward to seeing more footage and listening to the stories associated to the different areas.
This is fantastic! A historic tour of Killala by Canon McHale, who was a wonderful historian. Well worth watching. Filmed in the early 1980s.
Great to see conversations from a faded Ireland. I think it is from about 1983
The survey was done between 1825 and 1847 Thomas frederick Colby was in charge of the measuring of the island starting in Spencer dock Dublin first place was divis mountain in Belfast and first completed survey was co Derry they marked stones as they went along these corresponded at sea level height from sea level to trigonometry spheres on tops of mountains they used trigonometry to get measurements after using gunters chain to measure
John o Donovan was part of the same survey he worked with the survey department and collected rare manuscripts such as the four masters 14 hundreds history and the down survey 16 hundreds history later in life he became a professor in Celtic languages he was related to o Donovan rossa
He was in fermanagh cavan fermanagh in June 1830 , the tide books he wrote and the survey can be viewed online or in the national gallery of Ireland in Dublin they translated townlands names from Irish to English amalgamated some and recorded tax payed in certain townlands type of housing crops and places of historical cultural importance and they recorded any previous surveys
There called tide books
You can also view o Donovan's personal diary of places he stayed passed through his correspondence with colleagues, very interesting, that's a copy of o Donovan's tide book he has in his hand a re print that was done in 1920s