Griffith’s Primary Valuation Records, Co. Kildare

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
Moore JamesAllen, AnthonyGrangebegKildare
Kane JamesBehan, MaryCalverstown DemesneKildare
Cummins ThomasBilling, Richard A.SillothillKildare
Gallagher EdwardBilling, Richard A.SillothillKildare
Hyland PeterBilling, Richard A.SillothillKildare
Kelly ThomasBilling, Richard A.SillothillKildare
Crampton JamesBonham, JohnBallintaggartKildare
Fay DenisBonham, JohnColbinstownKildare
Hayden JohnBonham, JohnBallintaggartKildare
Kearney PatrickBonham, JohnColbinstownKildare
Sandle WilliamBonham, JohnColbinstownKildare
Sandles WilliamBonham, JohnBallintaggartKildare
Whelan PatrickBonham, JohnBallintaggartKildare
Whelan PatrickBonham, JohnColbinstownKildare
Allen Anthony x 2Bookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Brien PatrickBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Delany PatrickBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Kilby JosephBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Little JamesBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Moore William, junBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Neill JohnBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Pratt FitzmauriceBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Smith HenryBookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
West George W. x 2Bookey, William - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Chamley JosephBookey, Wm., - Reps ofGrangebegKildare
Jackson RichardBookey, Wm., - Reps ofKennycourtKildare
Smith HenryBookey, Wm., - Reps ofKennycourtKildare
Murphy PeterBorrowes, RobertGilltownKildare
Neill JohnBorrowes, RobertGilltownKildare
Birmingham JohnBorrowes. Robert H.BullhillKildare
Brophy MichaelBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Byrne JamesBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Connor JamesBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Cooper CharlesBorrowes. Robert H.Calverstown LittleKildare
Curtis CatherineBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Doyle BernardBorrowes. Robert H.Calverstown LittleKildare
Doyle BernardBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Doyle JamesBorrowes. Robert H.BullhillKildare
Doyle JohnBorrowes. Robert H.Calverstown LittleKildare
Doyle JohnBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Doyle MaryBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Doyle MatthewBorrowes. Robert H.Calverstown LittleKildare
Doyle MatthewBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Doyle PatrickBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Dunn JamesBorrowes. Robert H.BullhillKildare
Gorman ThomasBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Horan DanielBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Horan JohnBorrowes. Robert H.BullhillKildare
Jackson BenjaminBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare
Jackson GeorgeBorrowes. Robert H.CalverstownKildare

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.