-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Y-IRL] Griffith's Valuation of Ireland Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:39:58 -0800 From: Pat Connors <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: ConnorsGenealogy To: Y-Irl mailing list <[email protected]> I've decided to send about three civil parishes a day until I get the whole county Leitrim posted to the Y-Irl. Jane, if you want you can put it in our files for future use. For those, like Cassandra, who doesn't understand the importance of the GV, here is the statement off the index cd: Since no Irish census of the nineteenth century has survived, Griffith's Valuation is a record of extreme importance. It is, essentially, the only detailed guide to where in Ireland people lived during the mid-nineteenth century and what property they possessed. In effect, Griffith's Valuation can be used as a census substitute for the years before, during, and after the Great Famine. Few other records can be used to identity an Irish ancestor's exact place of origin, and only Griffith's Valuation links an individual to a specific townland and civil parish. This information is very beneficial since identifying an ancestor's townland and civil parish is the first step in Irish genealogical research. Hope this helps, Cassandra. PS I have put the GV and civil parish in the subject so you can delete if you don't need the info. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/dvArlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Hi all, Somewhat suprised to read that the Griffith's Valuation of Ireland was a census substitute for the years BEFORE the 'Great Famine'. The famine commenced in September 1845 with the failure of the crop due to potato blight. By early 1846 it had spread to most of Ireland and 75% of the country's potato crop was wiped out. The crop of 1847 though free from blight was small. In 1848 the blight returned and that year was the worst. It was not to the end of 1849 that the famine came to and end. Griffiths Valuation as we know it and is a listing of property owners at a particular date between 1848 and 1864 depending on the part of the country you are dealing with. It lists only the property owner, a census lists all of the occupiers. To say it provides information before the famine and is a census substitute is to draw a long bow indeed. Terry