Custom medium map
Example area confirmation for a custom medium wooden map, headed “Your area confirmation will look like this”: a Google Maps view of Sligo town with the area to be mapped marked by a black rectangle, from Sligo harbour to the edge of Lough Gill.
Example final design render for a custom medium wooden map, headed “Your final design will look like this”: a map of Sligo town in bamboo layers with turquoise water showing Sligo Harbour, the Garavogue River and Lough Gill, with the title “Sligo”, a compass engraved with “Outcrop Sligo”, and a scale bar.
Custom medium wooden map being made by hand in the Outcrop workshop in Sligo, with a cut bamboo piece being glued and a layered map with turquoise water half-assembled on the bench.
Example of a custom medium wooden map: Sligo Bay in layered bamboo with turquoise water, in a black frame on an easel outdoors, showing Rosses Point, Coney Island, Strandhill and Ballysadare Bay.

Outcrop design

Custom medium map

€620,00
Frame colour:Black
Quantity:

Custom medium map of anywhere in Ireland

Some places don’t fit in a circle. A whole bay with its islands strung across it, a peninsula from the neck to the point, a lake and the hills that hold it: at 40 × 50cm, a medium map has room for the full stretch of ground, and for the detail that makes it recognisable to the people who know it.

This is the custom map you help to shape. You tell us the place and what matters about it, then choose how far to make it your own: a title, a few words and a date around the compass, pins on the places that matter, the line of a swim or a walk across it. Before anything is cut, you’ll see the finished design.

How the design works

The drawing itself is ours. Aran has been designing these maps for years, and much of what makes one work isn’t obvious from the outside: where to set the edges so the ground reads properly, which contours carry the piece, and where a name can sit without crowding what it’s naming.

What you bring is the story and the detail. The custom options are there if you want them, and none of them is required. Many of the best maps we’ve made carry just one pin and a line on the back.

You’ll see the area first, on a Google Maps view with the boundary marked. Once that’s agreed, we draw the map and send you a full render of the finished design with your options in place. That’s the stage to check names, spellings and pin positions. Once you confirm it, we start making.

How ordering works

  1. Order here and fill in the boxes below. This is the only point where we gather your details, so take a minute over it.
  2. Within a few days we’ll send a Google Maps view with the proposed area marked. Confirm it or tell us to shift it. If we haven’t heard back within 7 days, we’ll go ahead with the area as shown.
  3. We draw the map and send you the render.
  4. Confirm the render. If we haven’t heard back within two weeks, we’ll make the design as rendered rather than leave it sitting.
  5. From confirmation, it’s about four weeks to cut, build and finish in our Sligo workshop.
  6. It posts out tracked, framed and ready to hang, in plastic-free packaging.

What we need from you

The place, as precisely as you can give it, ideally with a Google Maps screenshot. A bay, a peninsula, a lake, a stretch of coast or a parish all work well. A whole county is too big to show well at this size.

Why it matters, and who it’s for. A line or two of backstory tells us which parts of the map deserve the attention.

Any custom options you’d like: the title, the words and date for the compass, the spots for the brass pins, a route or track, and the message for the back.

And any local names that don’t appear on the usual maps, such as the name of a field, a rock or a swimming spot. That’s often the detail people notice first.

Somewhere outside Ireland?

We make medium maps of places all over the world, but sourcing the data abroad takes extra work, so we quote those one at a time. [Send us an enquiry] and we’ll come back with a price and timing.