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County Kerry. Plan of Smerwick Harbour, showing the siege of the Castello del Oro....
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/75
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This record is about the County Kerry. Plan of Smerwick Harbour, showing the siege of the Castello del Oro.... dating from 1580 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPF 1/75
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1580
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Description (What the record is about)
- County Kerry. Plan of Smerwick Harbour, showing the siege of the Castello del Oro. English ships shown and named. Also shows guns, figures, buildings and tents of attacking force. Scale bar in fretwork cartouche with heraldic beasts: 1 inch to 15 [?perches]. Compass indicators. [Drawn by William Winter].ouche with heraldic beasts: 1 inch to 15 [?perches]. Compass indicators. [Drawn by William Winter]. 1 item extracted from SP 64/1 (item 8). To view papers accompanying this map, visit https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/irish-maps-c1558-c1610
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 56.4 cm x 45.2 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 3915. Archival reference erroneously printed as SP 54/1/8. Described in R Dunlop, '16th-century maps of Ireland', English Historical Review, vol xx, 1905, p 322.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982019/
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MPF 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the State Paper Office
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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County Kerry. Plan of Smerwick Harbour, showing the siege of the Castello del Oro....
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