Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed It's an ideal birthday or

It's an ideal birthday or Christmas gift for a keen sailor or walker

reflects the natural drama and storied heritage of New England’s shores

when decorative county maps like this one were prized as a way of celebrating Britain's landscapes and coastal heritage

It shows the county as a patchwork of ancient hundreds and market towns rather than the industrial conurbation Birmingham and Coventry would become within a generation

and anyone captivated by the ancient world

Old Map of County Fermanagh in 1685 by William Petty - Enniskillen, Castle Coole, Crom Estate, Florence Court, Lough Erne Berwick-upon-Tweed It's an ideal birthday orBy the time Sir William Petty's Irish county maps reached print in 1685, the fieldwork behind them was already three decades old. Petty had directed the Down Survey of the 1650s, an extraordinarily ambitious effort to measure the forfeited lands of Ireland parish by parish so that Cromwell's soldiers and creditors could be paid in acreage rather than coin. His heirs later gathered the surviving county drawings into the atlas Hiberniae Delineatio, and