Where con you get a full copy of the entries in the Griffiths Valuation. I have found plenty of web sites where the names and locations are listed - but it would be great to find out more.

Susan I would suggest you call at nearest Mormon Family Library to find your nearest LDS Familysearch site www.familysearch.org Visit my homepage http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/djgriff/

Susan Marshall wrote: > Where con you get a full copy of the entries in the Griffiths Valuation. I > have found plenty of web sites where the names and locations are listed - > but it would be great to find out more. Irish Origins http://www.origins.net/OWelcome-8.aspx has a database of Griffith's Valuation, searchable by personal name, with images of the related pages in the original publication. It is a pay site. Griffith's Valuation lists the occupiers of all properties in Ireland, stating also their immediate landlord. It lists only the occupier, not his/her children or anyone else. Any farmer or shopkeeper in Ireland AT THE TIME (it was published in stages between 1848 and 1864) will appear. It should include any dwelling or piece of land, but in practice an unquantifiable number of landless labourers are unrecorded. I would say, however, that 90% of heads of families appear. The labourers who don't appear may have been occupying herds' houses which appear under the employing farmer's name. People working for the gentry or aristocracy as game keepers, gate keepers, etc., generally don't appear, as the gate lodges and such buildings are usually listed for the employer also. Teachers and policemen are highly unlikely to appear too, as they were by and large living on the premises. Paul Gorry