MAPS

Title: A Map of the County of Tyrone divided into Baronies and Parishes
Object Name: Map
Maker: McCrea, William and George Knox; engraved by S.J. Steele (Primary maker)
Maker
Date Made: 1813
Place Made: England: London
London
Description: Folding map on four section divided laterally by a line through the south end of Cookstown and latitudinally by a line just west of Clogher. Scale 3 irish mile = 4 inches. 'Explanation' of features in the physical and built environment including fair towns and mills, with a delineation of distances from Omagh marked on principal roads; from the Tennent Collection. All four sections contained within a black leathered-covered slip case marked Tyrone. One of a series of Irish County maps commissioned by Grand Juries between 1780 and 1820. This updated map was recommended to be drawn by John McEvoy in his Statistical Survey of Co. Tyrone (1801)
Materials: Paper and leather
Catalogue Number: BELUM.P16.1986
Copyright: National Museums NI

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