Irish Bible Maps!

Little map from an Irish monk of the division of the Promised Land according to the bible. The Jews were promised what was then called Caanan by God all they had to do was go in and kill everything that breathes (seriously). They failed to do that and got caught up in the idolatrous practices of the locals ( burning children -alive- as sacrifices to their gods was one of the reason God wanted rid of the locals) 

Hurling Regions

so only 3 counties - Waterford, Killkenny and Tipperary are totally in the hurling zone. Im told that there are football only parts of Tipperary though.  One might be surprised to see that cork seems to have a smaller area of hurling land compared to its success but you should know that the shaded area includes the city which  has a lot of teams for a realtively small area.

Offally was not a hurling county until the late 1970's . The GAA conducted an experiment/program to help a non-traditional county upgrade its hurling. The result was that offally won 4 all -ireland since and   took 9 leinsters. Not bad going. I'd love to find out more about this program. Perhaps a specialist out there could get a book out of it??

There a few counties that have small hold outs. Kerry, Carlow (all though in fairness Carlow is small enough that this area takes up about a 1/4 of the county!) Antrim and Down. Roscommon also appears shaded here but i dont know if that's accurate or just the way it was drawn.

Im not sure what qualifies as true hurling country; I know that some of the shaded areas have great football teams and likewise there are great hurling teams from outside the area aswell. All of the cities undshaded- Galway, Dublin and Belfast all have big hurling teams.

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Potato Famine of the 1840's

The only thing i want to note is that the north was a linen centre and as such didn't rely on the spud for food. The areas which really suffered were the ones that did so. 

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Protestant Catholic percentage of Population 1766

Taken from Qub Antropology department.

Can't figure out the difference between the red dot for 100% catholic and the red dot for just under 80% protestant...

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Alternative Histories...

From here http://mangafreak4.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-Ireland-Scotland-312526714

and sure why not?!

Garvaghy Road Orange Order Route

For the day that's in it. 

Orange Order lodges in Northern Ireland

Taken from Sneps.com

Don't have any figures for the counties but it would seem from looking at this that Armagh has the highest concentration. There are 44 lodges in the Republic (see earlier post for map) which means there are about 1350 lodges represented on this map.  The OO is divided into 12 counties- the six traditional northern ones (derry is londonderry of course) plus the city of Londonderry and city of belfast plus 4 border counties - Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan.  These 12 counties are split in districts of which there are 126. A map of them i would like to get.  Each county has a county lodge and each district has a district lodge and then there's the ordinary lodges. If any of that is wrong please let me know.

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Golf courses in Ireland

Ok so once i was told that there are over 400 golf course in Ireland. Did that include the north ? According to this map there is about 75 in the north. The listings for Ireland start at 42 so I'm sure we are missing some particularly in the Dublin area but id guess the total is under 300 (according to this Map)

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Bogs in Ireland

I lived a few km away from a  bog (raised or blanket i can't be sure but i think it was a blanket one) and its not on here so how much you can trust it ... I got this from an article which was basically attacking Bord Na Mona for stripping bogs of turf for fuel for power stations. I thought BnM made bags of peat moss! Just shows you never get finished of learning about your own country.

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Population density by county

Not sure when this is from but I'm guessing it 2008.

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Kennedy Surname density map mid 1800's

Taken from surname origins.ca

I have two friends called kennedy. One is from Tipperary and it would seem from this map that he comes from a long line of them. The other is from the north and he tells me that his surname was originally scottish. That might explain the amount of them that are in that area. Interesting to note that even in the middle of the 1800's people were still been drawn to Dublin. I suspect that we will see more of these kinds of maps in the future. I would definitely like to see one for my own family name. The website apparently is going to do maps based on the 1901 and 1911 census aswell. 

BTW if you click on the image for the bigger map you will see the counties are further subdivided. These are the parish boundaries of Ireland. When i find a really high-resolution one of these i will post it. 

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Radon In Ireland

Taken from Radon.ie

Just another reason not to live in Connacht then...  White areas on map only refer to areas that not enough houses took part in the survey.

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Irish speakers in 1871

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All roads lead to dublin...

                                                    Taken from Bock the robber

Well all motorways lead to dublin... Hopefully the atlantic corridor will be finished some day and one can drive from Letterkenney to Cork. In which case we will be able to say all roads lead to Cork. As it should be.

                                                    Taken from skyscraper city.com

Taken from Transport21

Recently i drove from Dublin to Donegal. The drive through Sligo and Leitrim is one of the prettiest in the county. On the way back we took the shorter route through Fermanagh- It added an hour to our journey. It was like travelling back to the eighties. 

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Fracking

Taken from stevendonnan.blogspot

That orange space is the so-called Northwest Carbinoferous basin. Carbinoferous means it has coal. Any fracking that might or might not take place will do so in here. Im not sure if they are able to do this procedure under water.

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Orange Order Halls in the Republic of Ireland

Taken from cadolemo.com

A few years ago Eamon o Cuiv the minster for the gaeltacht and other things set up a group called cadolemo. This is basically a group that helps the orange order that is based in the republic.  The map shows the halls that are in each county. The numbers are:
Dublin 1
Leitrim 2
Cavan 7
Donegal 16
Monaghan 18
ROI total 44

The pics following come from a facebook page that took some photos of an attempt at a world record of the most orange banners in one parade. The ones here are all from Irish lodges.

Im told that there are plans afoot to resurrect old halls in Dublin and possibly one in Cork.

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Hehe:)

Found on sneps.net

On a serious note last week the OO grands secretary Drew something or other spoke to the Irish seanad. In my opinion he said some good things. Apart from that its all a part of "normalizing" relationships between the two communities. However in his speech he talked about the OO in terms that suggest that it is still a highly big part of the protestant community. Perhaps it is but it would seem that this is the case in the sense that its facilities are used regularly (they have about 1400 halls) but its actual members are way down (latest i heard was around 30,000) and like the churches in the North- falling at a steady rate.

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