Northern Ireland RUC Boundaries—Coleraine—Military Survey Troubles map 1988

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Northern Ireland RUC Divisional / Subdivisional Boundaries & Border Crossing Points — Sheet 4 [Coleraine] — Series GSGS 5309A, Edition 2-GSGS — Irish Transverse Mercator Grid (base map: Coleraine, 1:50 000 Map, Sheet 4, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland First Series)


Printed in July 1988 using RUC information dated 1 March 1985, this Military Survey map placed Northern Ireland's Troubles-era policing on the Causeway Coast, overprinting the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland's Coleraine sheet with Royal Ulster Constabulary divisional and subdivisional boundaries as at 1 March 1985. Produced for the security forces and hand-stamped 'Limited Distribution', it was not to leave UK government service without the Director of Military Survey's authority. The sheet runs from Magilligan and Lough Foyle, with Donegal's Inishowen opposite, through Limavady and Coleraine to Portrush, Portstewart and the Giant's Causeway, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1986. The RUC gave way to the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2001, so the map records a vanished security landscape. Beneath the military edition, the civil tourist cover shows Dunluce Castle.

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Size 75 x 98 cm | 29.5 x 38.5 inches

Date Published: 1988

Overprinted July 1988; base map 1980; Military Survey edition and revised HMSO copyright 1985; overprint information supplied by Headquarters Northern Ireland in 1985; RUC boundaries as at 1 March 1985.

Type: Late twentieth-century colour-printed folding military topographic map with blue Military Survey overprint and red hand-stamped 'Limited Distribution' warning

Author: Royal Engineers

Directorate of Military Survey, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom (military edition and RUC overprint; overprinted by Mapping and Charting Establishment RE). Base map made and published by Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland

Publication: Northern Ireland—RUC Boundaries—GSGS 5309A

Northern Ireland RUC Divisional/Subdivisional Boundaries & Border Crossing Points. Series GSGS 5309A, Sheet 4, Edition 2-GSGS. Produced under the direction of the Director of Military Survey, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom, 1985; this copy overprinted in July 1988 by Mapping and Charting Establishment RE (code '10000 7/88 872316 M'). The margin states: 'Overprint information supplied by Headquarters Northern Ireland in 1985'. This replaces Series M728, Sheet 4, Edition 1-GSGS, whose panel and 1979 imprint are struck through. Scale 1:50 000; Irish Transverse Mercator grid; heights in metres, contour interval 10 m. Overprint legend: 'Royal Ulster Constabulary Boundaries — Divisional; Subdivisional'; 'RUC information on this sheet is at 1 March 1985'. Base map: Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland 1:50 000 Map First Series, Sheet 4 Coleraine, Belfast 1980, compiled from photographically reduced 1:10 000 Irish Grid material; printed by the Director General, Ordnance Survey, Southampton; © HMSO London 1985 (1980 struck through). Red hand-stamp: 'LIMITED DISTRIBUTION — U.K. officials are not to release this map outside U.K. Government service without authority from the Director of Military Survey'. Folding sheet retaining the civil cover panel, with a photograph of Dunluce Castle by permission of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. Light soiling and scattered foxing in the margins, and small pale stains in the sea area off Portrush. Blue-pen marks in the top margin near the Sheet 4 heading. The red stamp is partly faint. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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