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Ireland: County Cork: Bear Island (An tOileán Mór). Three similar maps, items (1)...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/474
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- MR 1/474
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c.1812]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ireland: County Cork: Bear Island (An tOileán Mór). Three similar maps, items (1) and (3) showing proposed sites for barracks and the boundaries of Naval and Ordnance establishments. Reference tables to items (1) and (3). All items to scale: 1 inch to about 280 yards. Compass indicators to items (1) and (3). Dimensions: (1) 63.5 cm x 130 cm; (2) 68.5 x 134; (3) 65 cm x 128 cm. These maps were received [?by the War Office] from Major-General Benjamin Fisher.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- WO 78/1151
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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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 3807
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from records of various departments
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