John Speed's Map of Dublin (1610)
John Speed's Map of Dublin (1610) was one of the first detailed maps of Dublin and the first published map of Dublin produced by cartographer John Speed around 1610 and printed first in London in 1611.
It appeared as an inset in a map of the Province of Leinster in Speed's atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine and features 69 placenames and other locations annotated at the side by symbols, geographic features or crude illustratrations. Speed's map combines information borrowed from other maps but also appears to have mapped most of the town plans himself.
It is the oldest surviving map of the city of Dublin. The next authoritative map of Dublin wasn't until Herman Moll's map of 1714, which drew heavily on Speed's map, Charles Brooking's map of Dublin (1728) and John Rocque's maps from 1756 onwards.