#Hiberniae Delineatio

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THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER - MAP - 1650- CLAN CARRUTHES CCIS

THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER – MAP – 1650- CLAN CARRUTHES CCIS

          Sir William Petty surveyed the lands confiscated in Ireland during the 1650s. The Down Survey, as this project became known, provided the basis for his Hiberniae Delineatio (1683), part of the Library’s collection, from which this map of Ulster is taken.   Carruthers settled in Fermanagh on the lower west on the map, and Londonderry.  At one time Lord Atchison and his brother owned,…