Old Map of Connacht in 1685 by Sir William Petty - Galway, Sligo, Roscommon vintage globe map A map like this suits

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Old Map of Connacht in 1685 by Sir William Petty - Galway, Sligo, Roscommon vintage globe map A map like this suitsThis map of the province of Connacht was published in 1685 by Sir William Petty, an English surgeon, scientist and statistician who had earlier led the Down Survey of Ireland between 1656 and 1658. That survey was the first attempt anywhere in the world to measure an entire country's land on a parish by parish basis, undertaken so that estates confiscated from Irish Catholic landowners after the Cromwellian wars could be redistributed to English and