Work

The new description of the Cittie of Waterford with the new fortifications there. Also the fort of the rock, the tree course of the river; the new worke at the passage, and of the fortifications at Duncannon

Alternative title

• Hardiman atlas
• The new description of the City of Waterford with the new fortifications there ...

Shelf Mark/Reference Number

• IE TCD MS 1209/64

Location

• Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin

Creator

• Unattributed

Contributor

• Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629, Collector
• Jobson, Francis, Associated Name
• Hardiman, James, 1782-1855, Associated Name
• O'Sullivan, William, -2000, Annotator

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.48495/h989r362m

Rights statement

• Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Copyright status

• Public domain

Date Created

• between approximately 1560-1620

Physical extent

• 61

Language

• English

Abstract

• IE TCD MS 1209/64, 'The new description of the Cittie of Waterford with the new fortifications there. Also the fort of the rock, the trew course of the river; the new worke at the passage, and of the fortifications at Duncannon, erected in 1591', by Francis Jobson. 'Erected in 1591' by Francis Jobson [must be a copy as it is not in Jobson's hand, according to note by William O'Sullivan]. Shows Waterford city, the mouth of the Suir, the area of Tramore, Passage East, and Dunmore east, Hook Head, Ballyhack, Peltowne, Temple Peltowne, Duncannon island fort, ffether [on Sea], Great Island in the Barrow [the Barrow is not named], Little island near Waterford city in the Suir), Temple Kilnivrine in Co Kilkenny. Elaborate unfinished colophon on bottom left shows a scale and author-claim: ffranciscus Jobsonn descripsit 1591. Another colophon in upper right has nine-line inscription ending in: 'fort erected in Duncannon in Anno 1591'. Crowned coat of arms in upper left.

Bibliography

• The Hook part of this map (the lower two-thirds of the right half) is published in FHA Aalen, Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout, Atlas of the Irish rural landscape (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997) p 270.

Collection title

• Hardiman atlas

Provenance

• Collected by George Carew, Lord President of Munster at the beginning of the 17th century. Presented to the Library of Trinity College Dublin in the late 1700s.

Subject

• Fortification--Ireland--History
• Ireland--History--16th century
• Waterford (Ireland : County)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Ireland--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Leinster (Ireland)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Waterford (Ireland)--Maps--Early works to 1800

Keyword

• Unassigned

Format

• Maps
• maps

Resource type

• still image

Medium

• ink

Support

• paper (fiber product)

Culture

• Irish

Digital Object Id

• MS1209_075

Source

• 0046544

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Relationships

Parent works and subseries:

• Hardiman atlas

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