In addition to being a fantastic writer, series creator Travis Beacham is also a highly skilled mapmaker, having mapped out the city of The Burgue in extreme detail back in college while writing the original screenplay from which the show is based. That same map is what the production used to create the sets in the show.
In imagining the world of "Carnival Row," series creator Travis Beacham drew heavily from Irish culture and history to create fantasy world containing very real social and political undertones.
An enormous attention to detail went into constructing the sets of "Carnival Row." Series creator Travis Beacham has said that one of his favorite such details are the 'creature illustrations' drawn over the human silhouettes on the windows of 'The Row's' barber shop... a small detail that alludes to the history of non-human assimilation within this once previously working-class human neighborhood.
The Burgue was founded almost 1,200 years before the events of "Carnival Row" by a nomadic human tribe called 'The Beorn.'
A 'skipjack' is someone who hunts down creatures who've skipped out on their contracts. In other words, 'a bounty hunter.'