Further Reading

John H. Andrews, Plantation Acres: An historical study of the Irish land surveyor and his techniques (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1985).

John H. Andrews, Shapes of Ireland: Maps and their makers, 1564–1839 (Dublin, 1997), pp. 118–152.

Toby Barnard, Cromwellian Ireland: English government and reform in Ireland, 1649–1660 (Oxford, 2000 edn)

David Brown, Empire and Enterprise: Money, power and the Adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars (Manchester, 2020).

D. Buisseret (ed.), Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The emergence of cartography as a tool of government in early modern Europe (Chicago, 1992).

Aidan Clarke, Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: The end of the Commonwealth, 1659–1660 (Cambridge, 1999).

John Cunningham, Conquest and Land in Ireland: The transplantation to Connacht, 1649–1680 (Woodbridge, 2011).

William H. Hardinge, ‘On manuscript mapped Townland Surveys in Ireland of a public character’, Royal Irish Academy Transactions, vol.24 (1858–71), pp. 3–119.

Annaleigh Margey, ‘Representing plantation landscapes: The mapping of Ulster, c.1560–1640’, in James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne (eds), PlantationIreland: Settlement and material culture, c.1550–1700 (Dublin, 2009), pp.140–164.

Micheál Ó Siochrú, Confederate Ireland, 1642–1649: A constitutional and political analysis (Dublin, 2nd edn, 2008).

Micheál Ó Siochrú, God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the conquest of Ireland (London, 2009).

Micheál Ó Siochrú and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds), Ireland: 1641: Contexts and reactions (Manchester, 2015).

Micheál Ó Siochrú and David Brown, ‘The Down Survey and the Cromwellian Land Settlement’, in Jane Ohlmeyer (ed.), The Cambridge History of Ireland, vol. 2: 1550–1730 (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 584–607.

Micheál Ó Siochrú, Elaine Murphy and Jason Peacey (eds), The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, vol. 2: 1649–1653 (Oxford, 2022).

William Petty (ed. Thomas Aiskew Larcom), The History of the Survey of Ireland commonly called the Down Survey, A.D. 1655–1656 (Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1851).

J.P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (repr. Dublin, 1996).

William J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A geography of colonial and early modern Ireland, c.1530–1750 (Cork, 2006), pp. 166–97.