Burke’s Cave
Burke's Cave One of the interesting aspects of examining old maps is that they often show long gone features from the past, particularly in urban areas. However due to the…
EastWest Mapping Blog
Burke's Cave One of the interesting aspects of examining old maps is that they often show long gone features from the past, particularly in urban areas. However due to the…
Raths and Raws The rath or ringfort is a ubiquitous feature in the Irish landscape - there are thought to be 40,000 plus sites. These circular enclosures were used as…
Kippure - The Pole Kippure is a townland and also the name given to the highest mountain in Co.Dublin at 757 metres in altitude. Straddling the Dublin/Wicklow border, it is…
Mer de Glace & global warming Global warming is in the news a lot these days and one of the oft quoted pieces of 'evidence' is the retreat of the…
'A Paper Landscape - the Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth Century Ireland' by J.H. Andrews first published 1975, second edition 2001. This is the only detailed history of the Ordnance Survey…
The curious case of Prince William's Seat or Clusnaspeire Prince William's Seat is the Ordnance Survey name for the hill of 555 metres in height on the Dublin & Wicklow…
Hiiker Update Digital maps by EastWest Mapping are found exclusively on the Hiiker phone app, an app developed here in Ireland with a global reach. To access our detailed maps…
Cooley Map Updates Two updates needed to our recently published Cooley 1:25,000 scale map. 1) In Glenmore, please disregard the shop symbol near where the Táin Way crosses the road.…
Connemara Mountains Map Update Thanks to Patsy Cahalan and Proinsias de Paor for supplying details of two notable cairns that lie between Cruach Láir and Tonald Hill on our Connemara…
New Cooley Map We have a new publication just hot off the press! This is a detailed map of the Cooley peninsula in Co.Louth including Slieve Foye and Ravensdale etc.…