Records showing the ancient grounds connected to St Patrick’s Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin which were thought to have been lost forever have turned up in a map on sale in a London auction rooms. The 300-hundred year old map was bought for £2,000 (stg) by the Church of Ireland at the auction held by antique dealers Bonhams.
The map is a manuscript map showing the lands of the ‘vicars choral’ which, in 1714, when the map was drawn, were attached to St Patrick’s.
The records of the vicars’ choral have not survived, so the acquisition of the map is regarded by the Church is regarded as an important addition to its archives.
It includes drawings of Mrs Carr’s Mill and the Way Mills of Harold’s Cross.
It was prepared is by Gabriel Stokes, who was known as an eminent Dublin surveyor at the
The map of St Patrick’s is believed to be the earliest signed map drawn by Stokes, who was born in 1682 and attended the King’s Hospital after which he was apprenticed to Joseph Moland, who had been appointed Dublin City Surveyor in 1706.
He also drew maps for the other Dublin cathedral, Christchurch, Trinity College, and the Erasmus Smith schools.
He became deputy Surveyor General of Ireland in 1748.
His newly-discovered map will now join the other archives of St Patrick’s Cathedral which are held in the Representative Church Body Library.
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