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4 items (enclosures in Colonel Emmett's letter of 24 June 1853 to the Inspector General...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/1073
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This record is about the 4 items (enclosures in Colonel Emmett's letter of 24 June 1853 to the Inspector General... dating from 1853 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1853
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4 items (enclosures in Colonel Emmett's letter of 24 June 1853 to the Inspector General of Fortifications) extracted from WO 44/584. Ireland: County Tipperary. (1) No 1: 'Clonmel. Plan of Barracks shewing the course of the Boelick Stream above and below the Barrack and the proposed new Auxiliary Drain ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet. Compass indicator. Signed by R Hammond, Foreman of Works, 16 April 1853. Signed by J Gossett, Captain, Royal Engineers, 18 April 1853. Initialled by B R B [Baker]. (2) No 2: 'Clonmel. Artillery Barracks. Detail Plan of Sewer Mouth & Sluice ...': sections and elevation. Scale: 1 inch to 2 feet. Signed by J Bennett, Clerk of Works, 10 May 1853. Signed by Hammond, 6 May 1853; and by Gossett, 11 May 1853. (3) No 3: section along line shown on (1). Scale: horizontal 1 inch to 50 feet; vertical 1 inch to 10 feet. Signed by Hammond, 16 April 1853; and by Gossett, 18 April 1853. Initialled by B R B [Baker]. (4) No 4: general plan showing the location of the barracks. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile. Compass indicator. Marked: 'Copied from Ordnance Survey' and signed by Charles A Lancaster, surveyor and draughtsman, 24 June 1853. Each sheet signed by A Emmett, Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 106 cm x 55 cm; (2) 28 cm x 44 cm; (3) 22 cm x 55.5 cm; (4) 23 cm x 36.5 cm.
Other items extracted from WO 44/584 are in MPH 1/1070-1072 and MPH 1/1074-1081.
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