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EastWestMaps Mobile Map Updates

EastWestMaps is our mobile app for use on Apple iOS and Android phones. It’s free from your AppStore or Play Store and comes with a free test map of Clare…

Science Room & Notes

Charles Thompson Day 6

This is the final photo relating to Charles Thompson in this wee series. It is I think the science / chemistry room in Mountjoy School where he taught and which…

Stony Top Lough Dan

Charles Thompson Day 5

The last hillwalking photo from Charles Thompson is a panorama taken from Stony Top or Cleevaun East looking east towards Lough Dan & Cloghoge Mountain. Note the almost complete absence…

Coffin Stone & Alps 1914

Charles Thompson Day 4

Today’s Charles Thompson images are the Coffin Stone on the western flanks of Djouce – note the old posts of a Powerscourt deer fence running behind. You can still find…

Mullaghcleevaun 1915, Maulin

Charles Thompson Day 3

Charles Thompson group on the summit of Mullaghcleevaun on 25th April 1915. It’s sobering to reflect that elsewhere in Europe on that day, Irishmen from the Dublin & Munster Fusiliers…

Djouce 1940s

Charles Thompson Day 2

Today’s Charles Thompson image is from Djouce, a very popular and much photographed hill in east Wicklow. The chaps are having a wee dram at the summit tor. Note the…

Charles Thompson Week

There’s been a considerable uptake of interest in hillwalking in recent years and social media is full of snaps and photos of people’s trips. But it’s not a new activity…

Our Lady

Shrine to Our Lady found on a by road at Cullabrack near Newport in Co.Mayo. One of the many little details found on a map by EastWest Mapping.

Abhainn Dú

Have you visited Ballycroy National Park, climbed Nephin Beg or negotiated the Bangor Trail? You’ll do worse than put aside 50 minutes and listen to this wonderful podcast called Abhainn…

Dublin Wicklow Map News

Our three new 1:25000 scale maps for the northern Dublin & Wicklow mountains have gone to proofing stage with the printer. These are prepared to our 25Series standard with 5…