A quick and reliable way to get your maps is through our website at www.eastwestmapping.ie We’ve needed to add an extra security step recently due to a spambot attack that…

Our three new 1:25,000 scale maps for the Dingle peninsula are finally at proofing stage with the printers and will be available in 2023. A good years work and I…

Beenoskee is the highest hill in the central section of the Dingle peninsula and overlooks the Magharees. The name is generally understood now in Irish to be Binn os Gaoith,…

There are four known air crashes on Brandon Mountain in Kerry that date to World War 2. The best known of these are the engine remains of a Luftwaffe Condor…

All text on a topographic map potentially obscures useful detail underneath, whilst adding usefulness. Placename text is positioned first, then Grid Labels, followed by Spot Heights and finally Contour Labels…

Inserting spot heights is a stage in map production, these are measured from a digital surface model with an accuracy of +/- 0.5 metre on open terrain. Spot heights are…

The one kilometre square grid used on EastWest Mapping maps is based on Irish Grid, one of our two national grid projections. This came to be used on Irish maps…

Logainmneacha ó Chontae Chiarraí I’ve been working through the mapped and written placename material for Corca Dhuibhne, roughly the Dingle peninsula. There are multiple sources including OS fieldwork records, the…

Bullaun Stones, often pronounced bull-yawn, are common enough field monuments found particularly along the east coast and hinterlands. Often of granite rock with a pronounced unnatural hole or depression in…

Brandon OS 25 Inch This extraordinary piece of cartography comes from the Ordnance Survey 25 Inch or 1:2500 scale series compiled in the late 19th & early 20th century. It…