Maps shed light on Cromwellian conquest

A digital record of the land transfer after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland has gone live, detailing the 17th-century landlords in every county and parish.

The Down Survey has been put online by researchers at Trinity College Dublin detailing the removal of Catholic landowners and the creation of country estates for Protestant merchants and soldiers.

It was the first time in the history of the world that a country had been so extensively mapped.