Ordnance Survey Ireland
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Ordnance Survey Ireland was the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland. It was established on 4 March 2002 as a body corporate. It was the successor to the former Ordnance Survey of Irelan
Mountjoy House, the headquarters of Ordnance Survey Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin
Headquarters of Tailte Éireann (formerly the Ordnance Survey Office)
Joseph Ellison Portlock
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Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlock was born at Gosport and was a British geologist and British Army officer, the only son of Nathaniel Portlock, a captain in the Royal Navy.
Ordnance Survey Ireland
…the Survey's Topographical Department which employed the likes of John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry in scholarly research into placenames. Captain J.E. Portlock compiled extensive information on agricultural produce and natural history, particularly geology. Despite the exclusion of Irish surveyors, this mapping…
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