Research Catalog

Title

Documents relating to the Bogs Commisioners, 1809-1813 / edited by Arnold Horner.

Publication

Dublin : Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2019.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Horner, A. A.
• Great Britain. Commisioners on the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating the Bogs in Ireland, author.
• Container of (expression): Great Britain. Commisioners on the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating the Bogs in Ireland. Minute book.
• Irish Manuscripts Commission, issuing body, sponsoring body.

Description

xli, 249 pages : illustrations (color), maps; 26 cm

Summary

"The bogs of Ireland have changed greatly over the last couple of centuries. The records of the Bogs Commissioners help in assessing the extent of these changes, feeding into local and national studies of environmental change. This book describes the large volume of documents associated with the government-appointed commissioners who in 1809 were charged with enquiring 'into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and cultivating them'. Operating until 1813, the commissioners compiled maps and reports on bogs in some 22 counties across Ireland. Much of their working materials, including many of the manuscript reports and many of the fine manuscript maps and diagrams prepared by their engineers, are now preserved in the National Library of Ireland. Other records are in the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) and among the Foster papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. The present edition identifies and draws together a diverse range of material, thereby allowing the potential significance of the work of the Bogs Commissioners to be appreciated better. The principal document in this edition is the minute book, in the NAI collections, which recorded transactions of the commissioners over four and a half years. Attention is also given to the manuscript maps and other documents now in the National Library of Ireland. The records associated with the commissioners include much local detail and offer insights into various aspects of early nineteenth-century Ireland, particularly its administration and the countryside." -- Publisher's website.

Subject

• Great Britain. Commisioners on the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating the Bogs in Ireland
• 1800-1899
• Bogs > Ireland
• Land use surveys > Ireland > History > 19th century
• Bogs
• Land use surveys
• Ireland > Surveys > History > 19th century
• Ireland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781906865559
• 1906865558

LCCN

2019393895

OCLC

• on1099868894
• SCSB-9466000

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library