Old Map of County Kildare in 1685 by William Petty - Kildare, Naas, Maynooth, Castledermot, Monasterevan University of Georgia history Engraved by Jodocus Hondius and

Engraved by Jodocus Hondius and first published in John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine in 1611

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Old Map of County Kildare in 1685 by William Petty - Kildare, Naas, Maynooth, Castledermot, Monasterevan University of Georgia history Engraved by Jodocus Hondius andFew surveys in European history were born of quite so blunt a purpose as the one behind this map of County Kildare. Sir William Petty, physician general to Oliver Cromwell's army in Ireland, was tasked in the 1650s with measuring the forfeited lands of the island so they could be parcelled out to soldiers and financiers of the Commonwealth's Irish campaigns. The resulting Down Survey, the first systematic land survey of its kind anywhere, was later