Item
See WO 78/2420/1-6 and WO 78/2420/7-8
Catalogue reference: WO 78/2420/1
See WO 78/2420/1-6 and WO 78/2420/7-8
Piece
Ireland: County Cork: Cork Harbour (Cuan Chorcaí): Haulbowline Island (Inis Sionnach)....
Catalogue reference: WO 78/2389
What’s it about?
This record is about the Ireland: County Cork: Cork Harbour (Cuan Chorcaí): Haulbowline Island (Inis Sionnach).... dating from 1883-1917 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 78/2389
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1883-1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ireland: County Cork: Cork Harbour (Cuan Chorcaí): Haulbowline Island (Inis Sionnach). Three similar maps showing naval property and buildings. Reference tables to accommodation, drainage, paved surfaces, etc. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet. Compass indicators. (1, 3) Zincographed and printed at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, under the direction of Lieutenant L Darwin, Royal Engineers; corrected to March 1883. (2) Apparently a later version of the same map, prepared for the Commanding Royal Engineer by Captain H H Massy, March 1895; zincographed and printed at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, under the direction of Captain E H Hills, Royal Engineers. Items (1-2) lack the colouring specified by one of the reference tables, but item (3) is coloured in MS as prescribed. MS additions to all three items note changes to barrack accommodation, etc: (1) pencilled notes dated 1886; (2) extensive corrections, in coloured ink, to the map and reference tables, dated 5 April 1917; (3) pencilled notes dated August 1893. Item (2) signed by Lieutenant Colonel W Digby, Commanding Royal Engineer, Queenstown District, 30 May 1917, and by others.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- F 432
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:600
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Zincographed, coloured
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3271333/
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War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans
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