Griffith’s Primary Valuation Records, Co. Wexford

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
Bent Bridget?Harley, John Rev.Main streetWexford
Donnelly Thomas?Harley, John Rev.Main streetWexford
Cody JohnArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Cody LukeArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Donnelly Michael - Reps ofArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Donnelly PatrickArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Furlong PatrickArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Hill ThomasArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Mangan PhilipArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Quirke ThomasArchbold, JohnCoolcull BigWexford
Redmond EdwardArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Redmond ThomasArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Walsh ThomasArchbold, JohnArdenagh LittleWexford
Walsh Thomas x 2Archbold, JohnCoolcull (Sheas)Wexford
Wickham JohnArchbold, JohnCoolcull (Sheas)Wexford
Bolger ThomasBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Greene WilliamBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Howlan StephenBatt, RobertCoolateggartWexford
Hughes AndrewBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Irwin DenisBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Murphy AndrewBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Murphy Johanna x 2Batt, RobertCoolawWexford
O'Connor DenisBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Parle JamesBatt, RobertCoolateggartWexford
Parle NicholasBatt, RobertCoolateggartWexford
Redmond Bernard x 2Batt, RobertCoolawWexford
Redmond JosephBatt, RobertCoolateggartWexford
Reville RichardBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Rossiter JohnBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Rossiter JohnBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Ryan DanielBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Stafford ThomasBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Walsh ThomasBatt, RobertCoolawWexford
Kelly EllenBatt, William Rev.Coolcull (?Moylers)Wexford
Walsh ThomasBatt, William Rev.Coolcull (?Moylers)Wexford
Walsh ThomasBatt, William Rev.Coolcull (?Moylers)Wexford
Wickham John x 2Batt, William Rev.Coolcull (?Moylers)Wexford
Boggan BridgetBoggan, JohnTincurraWexford
Cogley DenisBoggan, JohnTincurraWexford
Ryan MichaelBolger, ThomasBack streetWexford
Sinnott EdwardBolger, ThomasHigh streetWexford
GraveyardBoyce, Jane C.SlevoyWexford
Evoy DanielBrady, EllenBack streetWexford
Tierney PatrickBrady, EllenBack streetWexford
Hore MatthewBrennan, Loftus, Rev.Chapel streetWexford
Brennan PatrickBrennan, ThomasWexford roadWexford
Evoy JamesButler, EllenSlevoyWexford
Martin MaryCody, JamesArdenagh LittleWexford
Carty MaryCody, WilliamArdenagh LittleWexford
Waugh ThomasColeman, EllenBack streetWexford

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.

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