Geological Maps of Ireland (including Northern Ireland pre-1922)

A collection of 1:63 360 and 1:10 560 geological maps of Ireland. The maps were firstly created by the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and Ireland up until 1905 when the Geological Survey of Ireland was transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Following this point, the maps were created and published by the Geological Survey of Great Britain (later to become the British Geological Survey). The maps range from 1853 to 1953. Geological maps represent a geologist's compiled interpretation of the geology of an area. A geologist will consider the data available at the time, including measurements and observations collected during field campaigns, as well as their knowledge of geological processes and the geological context to create a model of the geology of an area. This model is then fitted to a topographic base map and drawn up at the appropriate scale, with generalization if necessary, to create a geological map, which is a representation of the geological model. Explanatory notes and vertical and horizontal cross-sections may be published with the map. Geological maps may be created to show various aspects of the geology, or themes. These maps are hard-copy paper records stored in the National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) and are delivered as digital scans through the BGS website.

Date (Creation): 1853

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608202

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Owner

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Point of contact

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Geology
Geological models
Geological maps
Geological mapping
Geological surveys

dataCentre

data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Denominator: 10560

Denominator: 63360

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GBN

Date (Revision): 2009

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

Date (Creation): 1979

Begin date: 1853

End date: 1953

Supplemental Information: The series included in the collection are: Geological Survey of Ireland 1:63 360 geological map series: The main Geological Survey map series for Ireland. There were 205 map sheets in the series, and many sheets were issued in more than one edition. Sheets were issued in Solid or Solid with Drift editions. Maps were issued 1853-1963. Geological Survey of Ireland 1:63 360 geological map drift series: A small number of Drift sheets were published during the period, mostly around the main cities, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast and Londonderry. Maps were issued 1902-1922. Geological Survey of Ireland 1:10 560 geological map series: A few maps were published at six inches to one mile. They have been included for completeness. Maps were issued 1874-1877. Geological Survey of the United Kingdom (Great Britain & Ireland) period only. Geological Survey of Ireland. Miscellaneous sheets: A few miscellaneous hand-coloured sheets were issued, such as for the Ovoca mine map in Wicklow. Maps were issued 1859-1902.

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

PDF ()

Distributor

British Geological Survey - Enquiries

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South , EDINBURGH , LOTHIAN , EH14 4AP , United Kingdom

0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276

OnLine resource: BGS Maps Portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
The BGS Maps Portal provides access to over 45 000 high-resolution viewing images of almost all the small, medium and large scale maps produced by the BGS since mapping started in 1832 right up to the most recent maps released in 2020. It incorporates all the earlier maps and history pages that were previously made available through the BGS ‘Historical maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland’ web resource.

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: The paper maps were created by firstly by the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and Ireland up until 1905 and then by the Geological Survey of Great Britain. The maps publication dates range from 1853-1953. The paper maps were scanned to TIF image format at 300 dpi as part a scanning project from c. 2000 to the present day. JPEG2000 and PDF derivatives were created from the master TIF scans.