Unfortunately, just a year after posting how pleased I was to find this resource for helping map townlands and parishes, I have to report that the site has had a major design overhaul and all that lovely historical detail and simple layered geographical display has now disappeared. The new version looks like the screen grab above at OpenStreetMap for Ireland which you can contrast with a similar screen grab in my post last August.
I've updated my Townlands page with what slim advice I can offer at the moment, but I think I'm going to have to wrestle with it a bit more to see if I can use it as easily as I could the old version. The site is massively open source and updates are provided by a huge community of contributors, which means it's not obvious who, if anyone, can be contacted to try to find out what has prompted the changes. If you know any more, please let me know!
I've updated my Townlands page with what slim advice I can offer at the moment, but I think I'm going to have to wrestle with it a bit more to see if I can use it as easily as I could the old version. The site is massively open source and updates are provided by a huge community of contributors, which means it's not obvious who, if anyone, can be contacted to try to find out what has prompted the changes. If you know any more, please let me know!
RSS Feed
