Griffiths Valuation of Ireland Index Extracts for all counties in Ireland. Irelands Valuation office conducted its first survey of property ownership in Ireland from 1848 to 1864. This survey became known as "Griffiths Valuation" after Richard Griffith who was the director of the office at that time. The survey was used to determine the amount of tax each person should pay towards the support of the poor within their poor law union. This involved determining the value of all privately held lands and buildings in rural as well as urban areas to figure the rate at which each unit of property could be rented year after year. The resulting survey was arranged by barony and civil parish with an index to the townlands appearing in each volume. Griffith's Valuation can be used as an excellent census substitute for the years after the Great Famine as censuses prior to 1901 were destroyed.
thankyou i have been looking for mill street cork i know my hubby ancesters came from there as i have a little book and the name was spelt right,they were cathalicks and there is only one church in mill street,i was looking for a gravestone and none came up.i have saved the site to my bookmark ,thankyou.brenda xxx
My mother's people came from Castletownbere (aka Castletown Bearhaven; civil parish of Killaconenagh) on the Beara peninsula in SW Cork. Unfortunately, this area doesn't seem to be covered either by the Skibbereen Heritage Centre or the Mallow Centre.
HTH -
Tim
"If we're lucky, one day our names and dates will appear in our descendants' family trees."
There is a lot for Inchigeela on the Beara Peninsula which you can find at the following website. Castletownbere is where the Healy Pass is, a wonderful place for a holiday! Big area for Sullivans, with or without the O.
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