Sheets of many colours: the mapping of Ireland's rocks, 1750 - 1890
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| adam_text | ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY
HISTORICAL STUDIES IN IRISH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
= NUMBER FOUR
Sheets of Many Colours
The Mapping of Ireland s rocks
1750-1890
GORDON L HERRIES DAVIES
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY
CONTENTS
Page
Foreword v
Preface vii
Contents ix
List of Plates xi
List of Figures xi
Abbreviations xii
1 PIONEERS IN THE FIELD, 1750-1814 1
The Physico-Historical Society of Ireland 1
William Hamilton and the Antrim basalts 4
Geology and the Dublin Society 5
Robert Fraser s County Wicklow 8
William Tighe s County Kilkenny 10
George Vaughan Sampson s County Londonderry 13
Horatio Townsend s County Cork 15
Richard Kirwan s proposed Mining Board 17
Walter Stephens s central Leinster 18
The Bog Commissioners and their maps 20
The Dublin Society and the Leinster coalfield survey 21
Ireland and the Geological Society of London 27
2 THE GENESIS OF GRIFFITH S MAP, 1809-1830 35
Griffith s early years 35
The map in vision 38
New regional surveys 40
Griffith and the base-map problem 44
The lean years 46
Griffith s earliest rivals 51
3 GRIFFITH S UNOFFICIAL SURVEY, 1830-1857 57
The Valuation Survey 57
The Railway Commission 61
A cartographic masterpiece 64
The map s later history 72
Who made Griffith s Map ? 77
4 ORDNANCE SURVEY GEOLOGY, 1824-1845 85
Colby s strategy 85
Colby s first defeat 92
The Colonel s second sally 95
The memoir in its heyday 99
Portlock s Londonderry Report 104
Captain James takes over 106
Griffith creates a diversion 115
Colby quits the field 118
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5 A NEW SURVEY BREAKS GROUND, 1845-1850 126
A team is chosen 127
Mapping begins 132
Exit James 137
De La Beche s new broom 138
Oldham sets to work 141
The Survey s first publications 149
Exit Oldham 152
6 YEARS OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT, 1850-1869 156
Joseph Beete Jukes 156
Conflict over scales 160
Jukes s mapping programme 162
Administrative changes 167
The one-inch sheets 170
The memoirs 172
Geological problems 181
Personal problems 184
The death of Jukes 190
7 THE TASK COMPLETED, 1869-1890 195
The new Director 196
The players in the final act 198
Fresh scenery 205
Old scenery revisited 208
War in the wings 216
The curtain falls 222
Epilogue 232
Index 233
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