A new ordinance survey project has been launched Connla Young
Education minister Simon Harris TD
A €740,000 cross-border research project is set to combine and digitise ordnance survey (OS) material from across the island.
The project aims to bring together heritage material from for a new digital humanities research project.
The scheme has been launched after researchers at University of Limerick (UL) and Queen s University Belfast (QUB) secured funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Cash will be made available for 11 digital humanities projects across Ireland and the UK.
The research project, OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’ hopes to revamp interest in ordnance survey by re-connecting and sharing the divided legacies of the OS in Ireland .