Griffith’s Primary Valuation Records, Co. Monaghan

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
Nelson JamesAiken, JohnShancoMonaghan
Nelson ThomasAiken, JohnShancoMonaghan
Lamb PatrickAiken, SamuelMullaghcrogheryMonaghan
M'Caul JamesBartley, ThomasMain street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Macauley WilliamBashford, EstherMain street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Holland John T. x 2Bashford, EstherNafartyMonaghan
Bell JohnBell, SamuelMullaghcrogheryMonaghan
Murphy OwenBell, WilliamTirnadrolaMonaghan
Bray JamesBellew, PatrickGarlegobbanMonaghan
M'Shane JamesBellew, PatrickGarlegobbanMonaghan
Branagan John (Herd)Branagan, PeterGarlegobbanMonaghan
Connolly MichaelBrennan, PeterDrumgownaMonaghan
Clarke AnneByrne, FrancisLurgansMonaghan
Cluskey DorotheaByrne, FrancisLurgansMonaghan
Fitzpatrick PatrickByrne, FrancisLurgansMonaghan
Connolly ThomasCallan, JamesLurgansMonaghan
Byrne ThomasCallan, JohnLeegMonaghan
Fagan PeterCallan, JohnLeegMonaghan
M'Donnell JamesCallan, PatrickCorkashyduffMonaghan
Ward JohnCallan, PatrickCorkashyduffMonaghan
Goodman PatrickCallan, ThomasCorbaneMonaghan
Kelly PatrickCampbell & Marquis**KinallybaneMonaghan
Agnew JamesCarolan, Peter, Rev.Bath street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Cumming RichardCarolan, Peter, Rev.Bath street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
M'Cullagh ThomasCarolan, Peter, Rev.Bath street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
O'Connor JohnCarolan, Peter, Rev.Bath street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Gartlan Thos. M'EvoyClements & Marquis*Drummond OtraMonaghan
Gibson EdwardClements & Marquis*Drummond OtraMonaghan
M'Growther Peter & anotherClinton, AnthonyMain street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Devlin ArthurClinton, MarkRaferaghMonaghan
Crossan CharlesCluskey, PierceMullanarryMonaghan
M'Ardle ArthurCollins, BernardLurgansMonaghan
Goodwin PhilipConnor, PatrickCoraghyMonaghan
Hand LaurenceConnor, PatrickCorrinentyMonaghan
Hughes JamesConnor, PatrickCoraghyMonaghan
Gartland JohnConnor, PeterDunogeMonaghan
Malone BernardConnor, PeterDunogeMonaghan
M'Kittrick AnneConnor, PeterDunogeMonaghan
Mooney CatherineCooney, MichaelCarrickartaghMonaghan
Short JamesCullerton, PatrickRaferaghMonaghan
M'Bride MichaelDaly, BernardMullaghmacateerMonaghan
Campbell JamesDaly, PatrickLeegMonaghan
Kirwan BridgetDaly, PatrickLeegMonaghan
Bartley ThomasDavis, Edwin M.Main street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
M'Keon JohnDavis, Edwin M.Main street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Clinton AnthonyDirestors of Nat. BankMain street, Drummond OtraMonaghan
Rooney MichaelDooley, PeterBallingarryMonaghan
Sullivan HughDooley, PeterBallingarryMonaghan
M'Enany OwenDoran, MichaelShanrahMonaghan
Daly EdwardDuffy, AgnesCargaghogeMonaghan

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.