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Online Databases
The following can only be accessed through your local library;
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Between 1829 and 1842 Ordnance Survey Ireland completed the first ever large-scale survey of an entire country.
- 6"mapping series in colour (1837 - 1842)
- 6" mapping series in Black and White (1837 - 1842)
- 25" mapping series in Black and White (1887 - 1913)
Visit your local library to gain free access to the OSI Historic maps service. Staff will be happy to assist.
The Irish Times Archive
The Irish Times Digital Archive is a fully searchable reproduction of all editions of the Irish Times from 1859 onwards. This offers researchers, students and people with an interest in Irish history access to a valuable source of information.
Visit your local library to gain free access to the Irish Times Digital Archive.
Irish Newspaper Archives
Irish Newspaper Archives provides access to fully searchable reproductions of a wide number of Irish newspapers. Explore Ireland's Heritage by browsing through key dates in Irish history. Why not browse the Freeman's Journal at the time of Wolfe Tone's Rebellion or look through The Nation at the time of the Great Famine? Alternatively, explore selected years of the Westmeath Examiner,the Meath Chronicle, the Anglo-Celt or the Connaught Tribune, to mention a few of the local papers available.
All this can be explored for free from the comfort of your local Westmeath Library.
