- O'Dempsey's Country
- The Territory of Ancient Offaly
- The Territory of Ancient Offaly II
- The Traditions of Clonsast
- 4th Letter
- The History of Killeigh
- O'Molloy's Country of Fear Ceall
- The Battle of Moylena
- Index of Ordnances Survey Letters
- Ordnance Survey Letters for Offaly 1838
- Eiscir Riada and the Edenderry District
- Lynally and Rahan
- Treasure in Ballykillan
- Killoughy and the Hill of Croghan
- Croghan Hill
- Tullamore River, Killurin and Ballintogher
- Ballycowan and Sragh Castles
- Kilbride (Clara), Ballyburley, Killclonfort and Ballycommon
- Durrow and Geashell - The English Authorities Attacked
- "A County of Bogs and Morasses"
- Castles in West Offaly
- Did A Gallogoly Kill Hugh De Lacy?
- Clonmacnoise (1)
- Clonmacnoise (2)
- Clonmacnoise (3)
- Clonmacnoise (4)
- Clonmacnoise (5)
- Lusmagh - The Plain of Herbs
- Gallen and Clonony
- Hugh de Lacy's murder at Durrow in 1186
- Leamanaghan
- The Castles of Mac Coughlan's Country
- The Will of Sir John Coghlan
- The Boundries of O'Molloy Country of Fear Ceall (1)
- The Boundries of O'Molloy Country of Fear Ceall (2)
- Fearcall - (From the Inquisitions). Castlegeshill, 23 Oct., 1612. (8 Jac I.).
- O'Molloy Chief killed by a beggar
- Rahan in Ancient Meath
- Banagher and Cloghan
- John O'Molloy of Eglish - The Soogan Chief
- John O'Donovan and T.L. Cooke
- The Name Banagher
- The Old Church at Drumcullen
- Seir Kieran
- T.L. Cooke - "A Good Rogue and Sound Historian"
- Offaly Placenames
- Kilcolman Church
- Kinnitty
- Kinnitty Parish
- Placenames In Fear Ceall and Ballyboy
- Ballybritt and Leap Castle - A Liar at Leap
- Rathleen, Killoughey
- Rahan and Roscore
- The Extent of Ely O'Carroll
- The Cantreds of Ely O'Carroll
- The Genealogy of the O'Carrolls
- Ely O'Carroll
- Kilcomon Old Church
- Dunkerrin District
- Stories of the Offaly Saints
- Extent of the Dioceses in King's County
- Shinrone and District
- Townland of Litter and Cadamstown
- Durrow (1)
- Durrow (2)
The Ordnance Survey Letters
for County Offaly, part of a country wide series, are commonly known as
O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey Letters, after John O'Donovan, the famous
historian.
The Ordnance Survey Letters
of 1837-1838 represent the first attempt on a systematic basis to collect
material on Offaly's historical and archaeological remains. The pioneering
effort of the Ordnance Survey and of its topographical department in particular
was not emulated until the publication some 150 years later of the Archaeological
Inventory of County Offaly. O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey Letters are in
manuscript form in the Royal Irish Academy and were published in a typescript
by Fr. Michael Flanagan in 1933.
The Offaly material consists
of letters of John O'Donovan and of Thomas O'Conor. O'Conor, a native
of Carrickmacross, was assistant to O'Donovan. Both men had spent September,
October and November of 1837 in County Westmeath and in late December
of 1837 their attentions turned to Offaly, then and until 1920 called
King's County. The letters concern local antiquities, place-names, early
Irish history and the genealogy of the native families
It should be noted that in
the Westmeath letters are one of John O'Donovan's from Tullamore and another
from Edenderry. That from Tullamore is dated 1st January 1838 and could
properly be in the King's County volume.