Old Map of Munster, Ireland in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - County Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary theological map Maxima Caesariensis in the north

Maxima Caesariensis in the north

Northumberland sits in the far North East of England and was

using separate symbols to distinguish denominations of church and categories of school and public house

the map underscores the ways in which the army’s storied traditions stood alongside the region’s natural beauty

Each carefully etched depth

Old Map of Munster, Ireland in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - County Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary theological map Maxima Caesariensis in the northMunster appears on this 1665 map under its Latin name, Momonia, a label typical of the classical polish that the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu brought to his Atlas Novus, a work that by its completion in the mid 1660s ran to some six hundred maps and thousands of pages of accompanying text. Blaeu, who had taken over his father Willem's celebrated workshop and served as official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company, never travelled to Ireland