Richard Griffith and the Tenement Valuation
Author | : William E. Vaughan |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : William E. Vaughan |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : James R. Reilly (Genealogist) |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : General valuation of rateable property in Ireland |
ISBN | : 0806349549 |
Richard Griffith (b. Dublin 1784) had already established himself as a distinguished geologist and inspector of Irish mines when, in 1825, he was chosen to be Ireland's Boundary Surveyor. Griffith's appointment coincided with the government's determination to achieve a uniform system of land measuring and valuing for the purpose of eliminating various inequities in levying the two main forms of local taxation in Ireland, the tithe and the county cess, at the townland level. As the head of the Boundary Department of Ireland, Griffith would spend the next forty years supervising land valuation in Ireland and, in particular, the great Ordnance Survey of Irish townlands which fixed local boundaries throughout the nation. The Ordnance Survey documents, comprising over 3,000 maps and 2,300 registers, and Griffith's valuations of 1826, 1846, and 1852, were the surviving products of Griffith's efforts, and they constitute perhaps the greatest sources in all of Irish genealogy. The content has been divided into two parts. The first half of the volume treats the history and method used by Griffith and his colleagues in producing the valuations. Here Reilly explains how the surveys were conducted, how standard Irish forms of townland names were assigned, how the descriptive Ordnance Survey Memoirs were compiled, and what one can expect to find within their rich contents. In separate chapters devoted to the three valuations, Reilly describes, among other things, how the valuators assigned a value to property, how the information was publicized, and the relationship of the valuations to the new Irish Poor Laws. Facsimile illustrations of maps, memoirs and other documents from the valuations abound here as they do in the second half of the work, a discussion of Griffith's genealogical importance.
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Land value taxation |
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Author | : Sir Richard John Griffith |
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Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Farms |
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Author | : Frances McGee |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Real property |
ISBN | : 9781846821363 |
This guide introduces researchers to the archives of the Valuation Office, first set up under an Act of 1826 with the purpose of establishing a systematic valuation of property for taxation purposes. The Valuation Office was one of the great administrative enterprises of 19th-century Ireland and, with modifications, it carries out the same functions almost 200 years later. This is an invaluable source of information about properties, providing a continuous record of the names of owners and tenants, as well as data on the property. This guide provides an overview of the archives of the Valuation Office, which are held between the Valuation Office and the National Archives.
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Irish Land Committee |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Farms |
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Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Finlay Dun |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 994 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780806310527 |
In all genealogical work the first and most important step is to establish the geographical origin of the ancestor. In Irish research the genealogist may know the name of the county where the ancestor lived but be puzzled about a place name given as the place of birth or residence. In all probability the place-name s that of a townland, the smallest territorial subdivision in Ireland. Since research in Ireland will usually start at the parish level, there must be a reference tool that will key the townland to the parish in which it is located. This work was prepared under the auspices of the British government for almost that purpose. The over 900 densely printed pages show the county, barony, parish, and poor law union in which the 70,000 townlands were situated in 1851, as well as the location of the townlands on the Great Ordnance Survey maps, with appendices containing separate indexes to parishes and baronies.