Oldest map of Ireland on sale for €3m

If your sat nav is a bit out of date or Google maps ain’t your thing, a cool €2m to €3.2m could net you the oldest known standalone map of Ireland.

That’s the auction estimate on an almost 450-year-old atlas by Italian cartographer Grazioso Benincasa going under the hammer in London later this month.

As the oldest known individual map of this island, not depicted alongside Britain, it was produced — according to the Benincasa’s signature — in 1468.