South Dublin County’s Time Machine Innovation

We blogged here recently about the innovations which South Dublin County Council are utilising to enable the citizen to partake in shaping South Dublin County online. Such innovations are great for shaping the future of our county but South Dublin County is full of history and heritage.

The guys in our county library local studies section together with the folk from our Information Systems Department spatial data team have produced a significant innovation to bring the citizen back in time - to be able to view how the county was in the past and trace how it has developed up to present day.

Using out of copyright and copyright licensed mapping you can trace back to the year 1760 (Rocque) and see what your locality or any locality within South Dublin County was like in cartography terms.  Finding your desired location is easy - navigate or search the map for an address or a townland.  There is a wealth of information available to discover in these maps.  You can simply click between mapping from the years 1760, 1816, 1821, 1843, 1906, 1911-12, and 1942.

The service is presently in pre-release which means that it may change slightly over the coming week or so, but it is expected to launch online during Innovation Week (October 14th to 20th).

In the meantime as a reader of this blog you can preview the ‘time machine’ by following this link