Old images and postcards of Clonakilty

Old pictures of Clonakilty and West Cork from the National Library.

Pictures of headstones from various cemeteries in West Cork.

The "Emerald Isle" Album Series Views of Cork, Blarney and Queenstown. 73 Platinatone views with descriptive guide of the disctrict.

This remarkable and exceptionally rare edition of the first road map of Ireland. The maps were commissioned by the House of Commons in Ireland, and contain 289 pages of maps. The index for these detailed maps shows distances in English and Irish miles. The maps themselves show copious topographical details, like forests, hills, farm land, mills, houses, churches, etc. The large houses also give the owners names. Taylor and Skinner's road maps of Ireland (and their books for Scotland, England and the USA) were a phenomenal achievement for their day, and remains an essential research tool for the late eighteenth century.