Parish map illustrations for ‘A Dictionary of Manx Place-Names'

Date(s): 2003-2005

Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies

Scope & Content: Correspondence
23 06 2003; G. Broderick to NCJ with his drafts for the parish maps for Glenfaba, Michael and Ayre Sheadings.
03 07 2003; G. Broderick to NCJ with the remaining draft parish maps.
06 08 2003; G. Broderick to NCJ with request to advance completion dates.
31 03 2005; G. Broderick to NCJ with corrections; he has done an excellent job.

Final draft for publication
Final drafts by NCJ for each parish with treens named and shaded, and quarterlands named; set in a 135mm x 210mm frame; 17 maps with a separate page listing the farms and treens in Malew; corrections and additions by GB.

Working maps
Fifty-four, A4 photocopies of modern OS maps of the parishes Arbory, Rushen, Malew, Patrick and Santan; scale approximately 1:1250; NCJ working marked in red ink.
Twelve, A4 photocopies of modern OS maps of Malew and Santan at 1: 10,000; with NCJ’s workings in red ink.

Broderick draft parish maps
A series of 17 parish maps created by Broderick, pen on paper, as a basis for NCJ to draw up for publication; the maps are on A4 paper and show treen and quarterland farm boundaries; the treens are numbered in red and the farms in black; a list for each parish names the treens and quarterlands; the names of neighbouring, adjacent, parishes are also given; the parish maps are in alphabetical order.

Annotated copies of the parish maps in Woods’ Atlas
Thirty-two, A3 photocopies of the maps in Woods’ Atlas with quarterland boundaries marked in red by NCJ and problem boundaries highlighted in red.

Administration / Biographical History: This archive is material relating to the parish map illustrations created by Nick Johnson for publication in Broderick G 2006 A dictionary of Manx Place-names Nottingham: English place-name society. Broderick provided draft master copies which then had to be checked against modern and earlier maps.

The archive contains final drafts for each parish along with early working copies, the quarterland farm boundaries and names were devised from the 1867 Woods Atlas. 17 final plans were produced for publication, one for each parish. The parish plans are each produced as isolated greyscale land masses with their contained quarterland farms divided up and named/listed.

They were published as illustrations in Broderick 2006.

People:
Nick Johnson (NCJ), George Broderick (GB)

Language: English

Collection: Manuscript Archive

Level: FILE

ID number: MS 14146/63

Access conditions: No regulations or restrictions are implemented on this material. Advance notification of a research visit is advisable by emailing library@mnh.gov.im

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