Sir Robert Kane's Land Classification Maps – A Mid-Nineteenth Century Cartographic Initiative
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https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.1994.440Abstract
Under the direction of Sir Robert Kane, a series of land valuation and ‘agrological’, or soil, maps were produced in the Museum of Irish Industry during the late 1840s and early 1850s. These maps, hand-coloured on Ordnance Survey county index sheets, were intended to display complementary aspects of Irish land capability: (1) the intrinsic potential of the soils, and (2) the financial value of land which may be enhanced by considerations such as location relative to a town or communications. Long thought lost, three of the valuation and one of the soil maps have recently re-emerged, prompting a new review of an uncompleted, but farsighted, enterprise that promised much for agricultural science in Ireland.Downloads
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2015-01-15
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Horner, A. (2015). Sir Robert Kane’s Land Classification Maps – A Mid-Nineteenth Century Cartographic Initiative. Irish Geography, 27(2), 107–121. https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.1994.440
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