ABSTRACT The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, carried out in the early-nineteenth century, was not just the process of mapping and collecting place names for translation as it is frequently depicted. The director of the Ordnance Survey, Sir Thomas Colby, decided to also use the Survey to carry out statistical, antiquarian, and geological surveys. The results of this trigonometrical survey include the so-called Ordnance Survey Memoirs and the Ordnance Survey Letters. Both sources provide valuable information about life in Ireland in the 1830s and early 1840s. Focusing in particular on the province of Connacht, this article argues that the Ordnance Survey Letters should be considered an important source of information about folklore and folk beliefs which were still extant or had been until shortly before the Survey visited the locality. This essay examines how, in a period of change and decline, the Ordnance Survey wrote local cultural heritage and identity onto the landscape.

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康纳特（Connacht）的民间信仰和风光：《军械调查》信件的记载

摘要在19世纪初期进行的爱尔兰军械调查不仅仅只是描绘和收集地名以进行翻译的过程，因为它经常被描绘出来。军械测量局局长托马斯·科尔比爵士决定，也要使用该调查来进行统计，古物和地质调查。三角测量的结果包括所谓的“军械测量记录”和“军械测量信函”。两种资料都提供了有关1830年代和1840年代初期爱尔兰生活的宝贵信息。本文特别关注Connacht省，认为《军械调查信》应被视为有关民俗和民间信仰的重要信息来源，这些民俗和民间信仰仍然存在，或者直到调查访问该地区之前不久。