This map of Ireland is one of the most attractive ever published. It is by the great cartographer Abraham Ortelius who compiled the first modern atlas as we know it entitled ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’. His map of Ireland is derived from his own wall map of the British Isles published in 1564. It first appeared in 1573 in the ‘Additamentum’ to the atlas. This is an example of the third state with the re-hatching of the coastline. Andrews (2007). ‘Colonial Cartography in a European Setting: The Case of Tudor Ireland’, in ‘The History of Cartography’ volume 3 part 2 pp. 1675-76; Van den Broecke, M. 22.3; Bonar-Law p. 6-10; Koeman III 5900:31A.