A new ordinance survey project has been launched Connla Young Education minister Simon Harris TD A €740,000 cross-border research project is set to combine and digitise ordnance survey (OS) material from across the island. The project aims to bring together heritage material from for a new 'digital humanities' research project. The scheme has been launched after researchers at University of Limerick (UL) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB) secured funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Cash will be made available for 11 digital humanities projects across Ireland and the UK. The research project, 'OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’ hopes to revamp interest in ordnance survey by "re-connecting and sharing the divided legacies of the OS in Ireland".