Rocque Map Dublin 1760

However, when looking through the interweb i found that rocque went al the ways out to tallaght. John rocque’s exact survey of dublin, published in london in 1756, provides a vivid snapshot of the city at this period. 41 rows the cartography of dublin is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of dublin in ireland.

It is very appropriate that this year, the 250th anniversary of the publication of john rocque's 1760 map of the county of dublin, we can at last access many of our old maps via the internet. It shows ‘all publick buildings, private dwelling houses, ware houses, stables, courts, yards, &c.’. His map ‘the city and environs of dublin’, engraved on four sheets, appeared in october 1756, and it remains an unsurpassed record of georgian dublin.11 rocque also published town plans of thurles (1755), kilkenny (1758) and cork (1759), county maps of armagh and dublin (1760), and a general map of ireland 5 john h.

In john rocque’s famous 1756 map of dublin , we can see luke gardiner the elder’s new sackville st, with his “gardiner’s mall” in the centre.

John rocque's maps of the city in 1756 and the county in 1760” as want to read: In john rocque’s famous 1756 map of dublin , we can see luke gardiner the elder’s new sackville st, with his “gardiner’s mall” in the centre. Rocque continued visiting ireland until 1760 after which he resided in london, where he died 27 january 1762. Rocque was born in france in about 1704, one of four children of a huguenot family who subsequently fled first to geneva, and then, probably in 1709, to england.