Thk EakL of limiiY— Lansdotvnc iMaps of the Doion Surve/j. 38f) 



The first are mere outlines, wliieli apiiear In liave liceii intcinlnl as " l<ey " 

 maps, for use in coiiiiexion with tiic parish and townlaml surveys, and these 

 need not be furtiier considered at present. 



Tlie second class are, however, carefully linished maps, and of a type 

 similar in all respects to tliose in the Lansdowne collection. There are some 

 fifty-three of them in all (see Appendices II and !1I), of which Iwenty-two 

 appear to be those which were discovered by TIardinge in the Auditor- 

 General's Office in liiol} while the remaining tliirty-one are those referred 

 to in the Kecord Commissioners' Eeport as being then in a volume in the Quit 

 Rent Office.- 



Amongst the former we find the Baronies of Wicklow and " Catherlogh," 

 which though indexed are not piesent in the Lansdowne volumes, blank pages 

 being left therein for their reception. On turning Lo Petty's History the 

 reason for their omission is explained, for it there appears that these two 

 counties should have been completeil and cerlitied by November, 1656 (under 

 the earlier of the two contracts already referred to), but that unexpected 

 difficulties in connexion with their survey caused their delivery to be delayed.' 

 Odd numbers also of baronies wanting in the Lansdowne series now appear, 

 and fall into their places, while of the whole fifty-four maps in the Public 

 iJecord and Quit Pent Offices collection only one (Loghtee, Co. Cavan) is a 

 duplicate, in the sense that it has already been found in the Lansdowne 

 series.'' Now Hardinge, under what must have been a mistaken impression 

 (see infra), classed all these maps as duplicates or copies, but the conclusion 

 seems to be irresistible that they, together with the Lansdowne series, go to 

 make up what was once a complete original set from which the fair copies at 

 Paris were taken. 



This would " place " some 181 originals out of the 216 copies in Paris, as 

 shown on the list appended in tabulated form (Appendix IV) ; and it will 

 there be observed at once that the most important gapi remaining is in respect 

 of the counties of Cork and Kerry, which are scarcely represented either in 

 the Lansdowne, Public Eecord, or Quit Lent series. The explanation of this 

 hiatus seems to be provided in the following letter from I'etty's son (Lord 

 Shelburne) to Lord Carteret (the Viceroy), which has been found amongst the 

 Lansdowne papers. It may be mentioned by way of explanation that lienry 

 Petty had inherited, besides his father's fortune and estates, the materials of 

 moi-e than one dispute in connexion with the latter. The letter originates 



'Hardinge, p. 27, and Appendix G. 



- Eiglith Report of the Pubhc Recoida of Ireland, 1^18, p. (i;52, and see Appendix III. 



^History, p. 131. 



■•See Appendix IV. 



