Griffith’s Primary Valuation Records, Co. Cork

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.


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Occupier_sur_nameImmediate_lessorTownlandCounty
Johanna CollinsAhern, CorneliusBallingarry, WestCork
James KielyAhern, CorneliusBallingarry, WestCork
Maurice RussellAhern, CorneliusBallingarry, WestCork
Julia HurleyAhern, Cornelius, jun.FarthaCork
Matthew AhernAhern, JohnBallynoeCork
Cornelius AhernAhern, John, jun.Ballingarry, WestCork
William BarryAhern, ThomasBallingarry, EastCork
John CollinsAhern, ThomasBallingarry, EastCork
Thomas DesmondAhern, ThomasBallingarry, EastCork
John DesmondAhern, WilliamBallingarry, WestCork
Jeremiah CarrollBarry, EdwardBallinluig, EastCork
William BarryBarry, JohnLehenaghCork
Jeremiah CallinanBarry, JohnGrange MoreCork
Denis DriscollBarry, JohnGrange MoreCork
William O'HeaBarry, JohnGrange MoreCork
John CoghlanBarry, John, jun.Grange MoreCork
Edmond RussellBarry, MaryBallingarry, MiddleCork
Patrick DonovanBrien, JohnGrange MoreCork
Reynolds DonovanBrien, JohnBallyhamsaneCork
Denis CollinsBrien, Ml., (Houraghan)CregganeCork
Patrick Brien, junBrien, Patrick, sen.AbbeymahonCork
Johanna HayesBuckley, PatrickCurrahevern, WestCork
John AhernBusteed, Hawkes & Beamish**BallynoeCork
Thomas DrinanBusteed, Hawkes & Beamish**Ballinluig, EastCork
William DonovanCarty, TimothyLislevane VillageCork
Margaret SextonCarty, TimothyLislevane VillageCork
John TobinCoghlan, DenisLislevaneCork
Mary CollinsCollins, DanielGarraneCork
Ellen DonovanCollins, DanielGarraneCork
John DonovanCollins, DanielGarraneCork
Jeremiah MurphyCollins, DanielGarraneCork
Daniel ToohigCollins, DanielGarraneCork
Michael Brien (Crone)Collins, JeremiahCregganeCork
John FoleyCollins, JeremiahCregganeCork
Honoria CollinsCollins, ThomasAbbeymahonCork
Timothy DonovanConnell, Charles, Esq.Aghmanister & SpitalCork
Cornelius DriscollConnell, Charles, Esq.Aghmanister & SpitalCork
John KingstonConnell, Charles, Esq.Aghmanister & SpitalCork
Michael NeillConnell, Charles, Esq.Aghmanister & SpitalCork
John AhernCoogan, JosephBallinluig, WestCork
John CoveneyCoveney, EdwardKilboyCork
John BreenCoveney, JohnBallingarry, EastCork
William Ahern (Con)Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, WestCork
William Ahern (Kate)Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, WestCork
Cornelius Ahern x 2Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, WestCork
John Ahern, jun.Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, WestCork
John. Ahern, sen.Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, WestCork
Daniel BarryCrofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, MiddleCork
Mary BarryCrofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, MiddleCork
David Barry, jun.Crofton, Henry W., Rev.Ballingarry, MiddleCork

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.