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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87197	Ireland. Or a booke : together with an exact mappe of the most principall townes, great and small, in the said kingdome. Wherein the longitude, latitude, and distance of one towne from another, as also the county or province such place is in, alphabetically set down. Very usefull for all sorts of people, that have or may have any interest in that kingdome.		1647 (1647)	Wing I1016; Thomason E1175_3; ESTC R208884	12,923	41

IRELAND OR A BOOKE Together with an Exact Mappe of the most principall Townes great and small in the said Kingdome Wherein the Longitude Latitude and distance of one Towne from another as also the County or Province such place is in Alphabetically set down Very usefull for all sorts of people that have or may have any interest in that Kingdome LONDON Printed for Iohn Rothwell at the signe of the Sun and Fountain in Pauls Church yard 1647. Ireland is situate vnder the .10 th and .12 th Climats the longest day being .16 howres and more it standeth to the west of Brittaine being of length from South to North neere .400 and in bredth .200 miles jt is jnvironed on all sides with the Sea haveing on the South part the Vergivian Sea on the west the Maine Westerne Ocean on the North the Devcalidonian Sea and on the east the Irish sea which divides england and Scotland from Ireland is devided into .4 provinces .1 Munster .2 Connaght .3 Vlster .4 Lemston and these into 32 Counties BRITANIA quae olim Albion insula est totius orbis celeberrima Germania Galleque figura triquetra obiacet haber a Septentrione Deuealidomum ab ortu Gormanicū ab Austro Britānicum et ab occasu verginum mare Nomine verò nunc mutato in duo duasa est regna Angliā et Scotiā Anglia coeli●solo felicissimo utitur coelum enī ita mi●e temperatūque est ut aestates minus feruidae et hyemes clementissimae sint calores enī miti●ant perēnes aurae et frigoris vim frequentes et sedarae pluuiae dissoluunt Solum fertile est maxime pecoribꝰ alendis aptū unde et lanisicijs abundat mā ut lupos non habet ita oues plurimos alit Stannum et plumbū mittit habet metallorum fodinas et salis fontes gemmis quoque non caret et gagarem lapidem abundè profert demque ex omnibus mundi plagis mercium huc allatarū copia affluit modis omnibus munitissima et ubique habitatissima Huius urbes oppida mercatoria castella et loca celebriora hac tabula delineauimus Caeterum admonendus es benigne inspector no● differentiae causa veteribus nominibus Asteriscū prou●locus tulit vel praeposuisse vel alioqui postposuisse DIRECTIONS TO KNOW where any Towne you desire to find out lies in the Mapp immediately IF you desire to finde out in the Mapp the Towne of Knockfergus I looke in the Alphabet and I finde the Towne and finding the Towne I see in the Booke it lies in longitude 16. degrees and 24. minutes in latitude 54. degrees and 36. minutes bring with one of your fingers a strait line from the degree and minutes of the longitude and with another of your fingers a strait line from the degree and minutes of the latitude till these two lines meete in a square and there you shall see the Towne of Knockfergus this is a rule for all other Townes that you desire to know where they lie in the Mapp Directions to finde the distance from one Towne to the other in the Mappe IF you would know how farre Dublin is from Knockfergus take a pair of Compasses and put them to the Scale of Miles at the foot of the Mapp extend them as long as the Scale is which is 40 miles every black and every white being a mile Then measure from the Towne of Knockfergus to the City of Dublin and so many times as it is the length of the Scale so many times 40 miles it is from one Towne to the other Or if you would see any other Towne that is not so much as 40 miles distant from Dublin then take the measure from Dublin to the Towne you would know and then set your Compasses to the Scale of miles and you shall see how many miles it is by the Compasse counting every blacke a mile and every white a mile and that is the distance by this you may know the distance of any one Towne to another If you would know by the Book what Province any Towne you looke for is in the name of the Province is set downe by the Towne in the Book How to know the longitude and the latitude and the degrees and the minutes ON the top of the Mapp of Ireland you shall finde written longitude and on the side of the Mapp of Ireland you shall finde written latitude the degrees are marked with figures the minutes are the black and the white that you see every blacke is 4. minutes and so is a white at every twentieth minute there is a small stroke there is three of them small strokes between every degree which is 60 minutes which makes a degree every black and white being 4. minutes IRELAND IRELAND is situate under the tenth and twelfth climates The longest day being 16. houres and more It standeth to the west of Britaine being of length from South to North neere foure hundred miles and in bredth two hundred miles the most usuall name amongst writers is Jernia ●he moderne Hibernia the English Ireland the Inhabitants Eryn-land which in their language signifieth Westerne land It is environed on all sides with the sea having on the South part the Virginian sea on the west the main westerne Ocean on the North the Deucalidonian sea and on the East the Irish sea which divideth England and Scotland from Ireland This Island or the soil it is full of mountaines hills woods bogs and lakes but abundantly fruitfull as may be seen where the industry of man playeth the Midwife with the Earth in helping her to bring forth It nourisheth no venomous beasts so that a man may sleepe securely under a hedge and in the open field upon the ground All the breed thereof except women and gray-hounds are lesser then in England The native people are generally strong and nimble of body carelesse of their lives patient of cold and hunger implacable in enmity savage cruell trecherous and superstitious easily adicted and extreamly laborious especially those commonly called the Kernes or wilde Irish but such as are bred with the English and Scots are more civilized Since the first plantation there of our English the people have been governed by a Vice Roy who wee usually call the Lord Deputy to whom there commeth no Vice Roy in Europe more neer the M jestie and Prerogative of a King Ireland is divided into foure Provinces 1. Munster 2. Connaght 3. Vlster 4. Lemster and these into 32. Counties The Metropolis of Ireland is Dublin seated on the hiffe in Lemster wherein is an Vniversirie This City after the English conquest was people by a Colony of our Bristoll men A BOOKE CONTAINING THE GREAT and small Townes of IRELAND A Province lon min. lat mi. ISles of Aran Ul. 13 24 55 16 Almore Vl. 14 52 54 44 Ashrow Vl. 13 32 54 32 Antrim Vl. 16 00 54 40 ARMAGH Vl. 15 20 54 12 ARDEE Vl. 15 36 53 44 Arglas Vl. 16 20 54 16 Anaghelome Ul.