School of History, UCC
Dr Annaleigh Margey, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Thursday 23 February 2023, 16:00 (4 PM)
The paper will be delivered through MS Teams. Please, contact Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel, School of History, UCC, for a Teams link: j.aandewiel@ucc.ie Or see Teams link below.
Paper This paper will focus on elucidating the surviving collections of early modern manuscript maps of Munster. Beginning with an overview of the breadth of the surviving collection of early modern maps for Ireland, the focus of the paper will turn to Munster, showcasing some of the maps that emerged from the decades of plantation. It will look specifically at provincial, county, urban, estate and military maps, from Munster and its regions, exploring how surveys and maps emerged, as instruments in, and products of, plantation in the province.
Dr Annaleigh Margey is Acting Head of Department of Humanities and Lecturer in History at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She studied for her BA and PhD at NUI, Galway. Her PhD research titled ‘Mapping during the Irish Plantations, 1550-1636’, focused on the surveys and maps created by surveyors in Ireland during the decades of plantation. She subsequently held an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography to continue this research at Trinity College Dublin. More recently, Annaleigh has worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen on ‘The 1641 Depositions Project’ and at the Institute of Historical Research, London where she conducted research on the property and charity of the Clothworkers’ Company in early modern London. She has written several articles on early modern mapping in Ireland, particularly on Ulster, and on the 1641 depositions and will shortly publish a catalogue of the early modern manuscript maps of Ireland with the Irish Manuscripts Commission.