{"id":274759,"date":"2026-09-07T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/274759\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:32:09","slug":"i-built-a-free-interactive-map-of-irish-history-drag-from-8000-bc-to-today-and-watch-the-counties-change-hands-looking-for-people-to-tell-me-what-i-got-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/274759\/","title":{"rendered":"I built a free interactive map of Irish history \u2014 drag from 8000 BC to today and watch the counties change hands. Looking for people to tell me what I got wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/yJG0JMGOLfpjMDa0niRacEW0OicKZAY6RuePIrg8TcU.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Spent the last while building this as a passion project and figured this sub would either enjoy it or tear it apart, both of which are useful to me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/myireland.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">myireland.ie<\/a> \u2014 no ads, nothing to buy, just an atlas of Ireland&#39;s history. Main bits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A timeline slider that runs from the first settlers to the present, showing who held what across the 32 counties at each point<\/li>\n<li>A Famine map comparing every county&#39;s population in 1841 vs 1851<\/li>\n<li>A surname map showing where families and clans came from<\/li>\n<li>Pages on placenames, monuments, myths, and a &quot;guess the age&quot; quiz for the monuments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two known weak points I&#39;ll own up front: old kingdoms and lordships didn&#39;t follow modern county lines, so the boundaries are approximations, and some of the further-reading links are Wikipedia while I work through proper sources. If you know your own county&#39;s history and something&#39;s off, tell me and I&#39;ll fix it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nd4diaz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spent the last while building this as a passion project and figured this sub would either enjoy it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[18],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-274759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/117231535546669311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}