Contents

1. Introduction
2. ‘Mapping’ Ancestral Territories: The Rationale behind the Atlas of Family Names in Ireland Project
   1. Introduction
   2. Part I
   3. Part II
   4. Part III
   5. Concluding remarks
   6. Notes and References
3. Sources and Methods
   1. Petty's ‘1659 Census’
   2. Griffith's Valuation
   3. Analysing origins and early development of family names
4. Creating the Digital Maps
   1. Introduction
   2. The Source Documents
   3. Hardware and Software Issues
   4. Trial Digitising of County Cork for Civil Parish Maps
   5. A Structured Digitising Approach
   6. Creation of the Barony Maps
   7. Attribute Name Data Capture
   8. Linking the Attribute Name and Map Data
   9. Choropleth Maps
5. Indexes to Petty's ‘1659 Census’ and Griffith's Valuation
   1. Full Index to Petty's ‘1659 Census’ of ‘Principal Irish names’
   2. Index of Mapped Surnames from Griffith's Valuation
   3. Atlas Extract of Small Sample of Surname Maps for c.1659 and c.1850
6. Appendices
   1. Annals of Ulster: persistence of names
   2. Annals of Ulster: surname development
      1. Early Surname Development
   3. Annals of Ulster: occupations
      1. Occupational references
   4. Annals of Inisfallen
      1. Occupational references