Griffith’s Primary Valuation Records, Co. Carlow

From the 1820s to the 1840s a complex process of reform attempted to standardise the basis of local taxation in Ireland. The first steps were to map and fix administrative boundaries through the Ordnance Survey and the associated Boundary Commission. The next step was to assess the productive capacity of all property in the country in a thoroughly uniform way. Richard Griffith, a geologist based in Dublin, became Boundary Commissioner in 1825 and Commissioner of Valuation in 1827. The results of his great survey, the Primary Valuation of Ireland, were published between 1847 and 1864. The valuation is arranged by county, barony, Poor Law Union, civil parish and townland, and it lists every landholder and every householder in Ireland.


Occupier_sur_nameImmediate_lessorTownlandCounty
Murphy WilliamWolseley, R., Sir Rev.RathglassCarlow
Nolan DanielWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Nolan GarrettWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Nolan MargaretWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Rainsford ElizaWolseley, R., Sir Rev.RathglassCarlow
Reilly JohnWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Sheppard JohnWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Smith JamesWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Smith WilliamWolseley, R., Sir Rev.OuraghCarlow
Sunderland RobertWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Sunderland WilliamWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Thackaberry WilliamWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Thackaberry WilliamWolseley, R., Sir Rev.RathglassCarlow
Walsh JamesWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Whelan JohnWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Whelan JohnWolseley, R., Sir Rev.RathglassCarlow
Wolseley ClementWolseley, R., Sir Rev.Mountwolseley or CrosslowCarlow
Doyle JamesYoung & Leonard**Church street, TullowCarlow
Farrell JamesYoung & Leonard**Church street, TullowCarlow
Greene CatherineYoung & Leonard**Market square, TullowCarlow
M'Donough JamesYoung & Leonard**Church street, TullowCarlow
Tomney MichaelYoung & Leonard**Church street, TullowCarlow
Griffin JohnYoung, WilliamCoppenaghCarlow
Healy CatherineYoung, WilliamCoppenaghCarlow
Bearney JamesYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Brennan LawrenceYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Cahill JohnYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Fitzpatrick PeterYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Galway ThomasYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Griffin MatthewYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Hayden MargaretYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Holden ThomasYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Kelly BridgetYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Kinsella AnneYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow
Nugent DenisYoung, William, jun.Barrack lane, TullowCarlow

My tables are sorted alphabetically by Occupiers’ name – any Immediate Lessor may be listed numerous times throughout a parish. Immediate Lessor names are not sorted alphebetically

In those instances when a person is listed twice in the same townland and the Immediate lessor was the same for each entry I have the occupiers name once and indicated how many times that name occurs in that townland beside it.

I have excluded the name of Immediate Lessors of Vacant properties when that person was already listed as being an Immediate Lessor in the same townland. The names of Immediate Lessors of vacant properties are included if that person was not listed as an Immediate Occupier previously in that townland.

In those instances when a person is listed twice in the same townland and the Immediate lessor was the same for each entry I have the occupiers name once and indicated how many times that name occurs in that townland beside it. I have excluded the name of Immediate Lessors of Vacant properties when that person was already listed as being an Immediate Lessor in the same townland. The names of Immediate Lessors of vacant properties are included if that person was not listed as an Immediate Occupier previously in that townland.

The Immediate Lessor is the person who owns or leases the property from the Landholder. The Occupier is the person who leases the land from the Immediate Lessor. The Occupier, in turn, may sub-let part of the property that they are listed as being the Occupier of, in which case, their name is then listed in the Immediate Lessor column. You need to see the original pages of the Griffiths Valuation which lists the type of property being leased.