Hi Pete, Sounds like a real fine. I was hoping that what I might need would be on goggle books but looks like it should be in Vol 1. Wexford County - Looking for any informaion on Sinnot, Senet, Sinnett. I have an obit that shows that James & Mary and their son Michael were born in Wexford Co. but have no idea of the Parish or Townland. Their may have been other siblings also but Michael is my ggg grandfather. My understanding is that they owned an inn or a pub in Ireland. Is there anyway that Vol 1 may give any information from them. Do know if I can get this book by interlibrary loan in Texas. Any help. Pat On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, <PeteScherm@aol.com> wrote: > I have recently received - via Interlibrary loan - the 3-volume set of > William Shaw Mason's "Statistical account, or Parochial survey of Ireland", > published between 1814 and 1819 by different publishers in Dublin. The > OCLC > number is 316363313. I have now copied the books (over 2200 pages !!!) and > returned the originals......and am now in the process of re-binding the > copies. > > The author was Secretary to the Board of Public Records. Although the > author and most of his sources were Church of Ireland (perhaps still C of E > at > that time ???), the content doesn't seem show any bias in favor of the > Established Church - in fact, what I have read so far seems quite > sympathetic to > the general RC population. > > The volumes contain information on 79 Parishes/Unions of the Established > Church, 18 of which are in the Northern six-counties. They do not > represent > anything like totality of coverage of Ireland, and what parishes/unions are > described don't seem to follow any pattern. For example, there are 10 Co. > Cork parishes, but not a single entry for Kerry. Some parishes receive > only 6 > or 7 pages while most of them are 15 or so pages. Some parishes have > townland maps, most from the Down Survey, and nearly all have individual > townland > information, such as acreages, proprietors, translations of townland name, > etc. I would guess that the townland information could be helpful, as this > data is from a period prior to the start of the Ordnance Survey.....and a > decade before Griffith's Boundary Department started "operating" on the > townlands and parishes and redefining (in some cases) the boundaries, etc. > > Here is the "Table of the Sections" for the books: > > "TABLE OF THE SECTIONS, > > According to which the account of every parish is arranged in this volume. > > > I - The name of the parish, ancient and modern; its situation, extent, and > division, climate and topographical description. > > II - Mines, minerals, and all other natural productions. > > III - Modern buildings both public and private, including towns, villages, > gentlemen's seats, inns, &c. - the roads, scenery, and superficial > appearance of the parish. > > IV - Ancient buildings, monastic and castellated ruins, monuments and > inscriptions, or other remains of antiquity. > > V - Present and former state of population; the food, fuel, and general > appearance; mode of living and wealth of the inhabitants; diseases and > instances of longevity. > > VI - The genius and dispositions of the poorer classes; their language, > manners and customs, &c. > > VII - The education and employment of their children, schools, state of > learning, public libraries, &c. collection of Irish MSS, or historical > documents relating to Ireland. > > VIII - State of the religious establishment, mode of tythes, parochial > funds and records, &c. > > IX - Modes of agriculture, crops, stocks of cattle, rural implements, chief > proprietors' names, and average value of land, prices of labour, fairs and > markets, &c. > > X - Trade and manufactures, commerce, navigation and shipping, freight, &c. > > XI - Natural curiosities, remarkable occurrences, and eminent men. > > XII - Suggestions for improvement; and means for ameliorating the situation > of the people. > > APPENDIX - Consisting of statistical tables, containing the value of the > stock, annual produce of the parish, &c.&c." > > > As it would be impractical for me to enter much of the information into > e-mails, I tried to see if these volumes are available on-line. Google > Books > seems to have only volume 2, which seems odd. But perhaps it's because of > my > slow dial-up connection and have difficulty accessing sites meant for > broadband access. However, for those interested - and on a suitable > connection - > it might be worthwhile to check it out. For me, I'll choose a printed book > any day.........especially the old ones. The two-hundred-year-old smell is > fabulous. Too bad I wasn't able to also copy the aroma [gr]. > > I plan on sending this general information to most of the Republic's county > mailing lists over the next week or so, with added specific comments on the > parts of that particular county described in the books. Although I no > longer have much in the way of "free time", I'd be willing to answer > questions > that don't require a lot of typing (reading is OK, lotsa typing isn't). > > These books contain sections on 8 parishes for Co. Wexford, 4 of them are > in Vol.1. Those 4 are Adamstown, Enniscorthy, Killegny and Killesk. > Adamstown is united with Newbawn civil parish in this section. There is a > detailed > listing of the townlands, name derivations, proprietors, acreage and number > of families. The Union of Enniscorthy iis just 8 pages long. In addition > to Enniscorthy itself, the union includes " 5 parishes, viz. Ballyhuskard > and Templeshannon rectories, [snip] St. John's a rectory, and Clonmore a > vicarage, [snip] and St. Mary's a vicarage". There is a simple list of the > 84 > townlands at the end of the section. Killegny is 10 pages long, and > includes > the "curacy of Chapel". The 17 townlands in the union are listed. Killesk > parish is also referred to as St. James's, and "consists of the rectory of > Killesk and parish of Dunbrody, St. James's and Rathroe". The section is > 14 > pages long, and there is a detailed listing of the 29 townlands in the > combined parish with name derivations, acreage, proprietors, population, > etc. > > Vol.2 contains only 11 pages, devoted to the Union of Whitechurch and > Kilmokea. There is a list of the 19 townlands and their acreages, at the > end of > the section. > > Vol.3 contains 3 parishes. Carn(e), 13 pages, has a listing of the 29 > townlands of the parish, and the derivations of the names. The Union of > Tacumshane contains "beside the parish of Tacumshane, the rectories of > Kilscoran, > Ballymore, Rosslare and Killilane; together with the vicarages of Kilrane > and > St. Margaret's". This section contains 46 pages - quite a detailed study > of the history and state of the Union in 1819. There is no townland > listing, > however. The parish of Tintern is 10 pages long, and contains a detailed > table of the 32 (or 33) townlands in the parish. > > > Pete > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts > </HTML> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >