If the ancestor who was head of household at the time of griffiths valuation was a farmer, you are searching for someone leasing a house and land rather than just a house in an urban area. Note, that although these maps accompany the griffiths valuation which was published between 1847 and 1864, these maps are believed to be a bit older latter decades of the 19th century, but they are better than nothing. Tithe applotment books the tithe applotment books were compiled between 1823 and 1838 as a survey of land in each civil parish to determine the payment of tithes a religious tax. Griffiths valuation news newspapers books scholar jstor september 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message. In effect, because it is the only detailed guide to where in ireland people lived in the midnineteenth century and what property they owned or leased, griffiths valuation serves as a census substitute for the years before, during, and after the great famine. The tithe applotment books are the first in a series of national archives records of genealogical interest to be digitised by the genealogical society of utah in partnership with the national archives, and placed online free to access. Explore your family history even more by getting to know the land from which your family originated.
The 1848 house book records for the town of dunmanway and. The black and white griffiths map versions were provided for this service by the valuation office. How to date griffiths valuation precisely john grenham. Griffiths valuation serves as a census substitute for the years before, during, and. The griffiths valuation or the primary valuation is a much used and valuable source in genealogical research. The griffith s valuation house books usually include a quality letter for properties, which provided an indication of the physical condition as well as an estimation of the buildings age. Griffiths valuation will also describe the type of holding that was valued. This description of griffiths primary valuation is from failte romhat by john hayes where he explores his hayes family history. This is a very good way of seeing who ownedrented the property before my gx2 grandfather. Griffiths valuation is an astounding achievement, a masterpiece of victorian social quantification that measures every property on the island of ireland with painstaking, pinpoint precision. It was to be a further 17 years before the final tranche of the survey was published to complete. I couldnt see my savage ancestors in the griffiths valuation so i went through the cancellation books in dublin for that area where i knew they lived in the early 1860s. The proni valuation revision books will complement any research undertaken using the griffiths valuation database on the ask about. By clicking on any of the name book images which display on the map, you can access the name book.
The later survey, griffiths valuation is perhaps the most valuable as it is generally more comprehensive. Griffiths valuation comprises more than 300 individual books. Griffiths has my great great grandfather named spelled wrong and his father in law on lot number 19 a and b. What you can find there is a record of the land you have located in.
So, if you want to find out what happened to the land after the details published in those years, you will have to consult the historical documents in the valuation office known as cancelled valuation books or revision books. Read to the end to find out exciting news about this collection. Valuation books going deeper into griffiths valuation. The author pays particular attention to placenames and people two elements that provide the foundation for all local history and their story will resonate with. At this point, the procedure was to transcribe the most uptodate information into a new book, where the same process was continued. Those parts of clare contained in the union of limerick were published in 1852. Griffiths valuation is one of the most important sources to irish local and family historians since it is the most comprehensive household survey that survives for the midnineteenth century, providing an insight into households in the period between the famine and the start of civil registration in 1864.
Unions are no longer in use as an administrative unit. Explanation of griffiths valuation and the householders index. A number of stories, mostly folklore, which appear in this book were collected by frank maguire, who for many years was a teacher in tullybrack n. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book from the family kitchen. On griffiths valuation, the numbers and letters of. One of his predecessors as teacher in tullybrack was john ohara, corlough. Historical information on the making of griffiths as well as techniques on assessing the information it contains.
Both are seen as census substitutes but they do not include as much information as the census of 19011911. Most holdings consist of a house, offices farm buildings and land. Griffiths valuation house books timeline irish genealogy blog. Carmel gilbride griffiths valuation eneclann eneclann. The term valuation revision books can be used generically for both cancelled and current land books. Of course you can also see through out the years who the next and next etc. Richard john griffith started to value land in scotland, where he spent.
Clare genealogy griffiths valuation 1855 county clare. The main sources for records of place are griffiths valuation, the tithe applotment books, estate papers and maps. Griffiths background richard john griffith started to value land in scotland, where he spent two years in 18061807 valuing terrain through the examination of its soils. This genealogical aid consists of a compilation of data contained in the tithe applotment books from circa 1830, a religious census which took place in the catholic parish of ballyferriter in the mid1830s, as well as the names of occupants listed in griffiths valuation for the same area, about twenty years later. In recent years more irish researchers than before have achieved a passing familiarity with griffiths valuations. Richard griffith and his valuations of ireland james r. 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. Complete the date fields if you have identified the exact year of publication then put the same date into both fields. Patricks day gena philibertortega writes about griffiths valuation, a valuable tool for researching your irish ancestors. Griffiths is the only irelandwide census substitute.
John griffith started to value land in scotland, where he spent two years in. Griffiths valuation history and genealogy research by. It is fair to say that griffiths primary valuation was more than 20 years in preparation before the first tranche of the primary valuation of tenements for county dublin was published in 1847. The notebooks were set up with the same columns as griffiths and if there were any changes, the old information was crossed out and the new information written in with the date of the change written in the final column. Griffith s valuation is the name widely given to the primary valuation of ireland, a property tax survey carried out in the midnineteenth century under the supervision of sir richard griffith. There is a printed valuation book for each barony or poor law union in the country showing the names of occupiers of land and buildings, the names of persons from whom these were leased and the amount and value of the property held. Like everyone involved in irish genealogy and local history, i spend a lot of time looking at griffiths valuation onaskaboutireland. The status accorded by irish record searchers to the information found in sir richard griffiths general valuation of rateable property in ireland in large part is due to the destruction of the nineteenth century population schedules. The first revisions of griffiths valuation of ireland usually took place within a couple of years of the original publication, but in some instances the time lag between the publication of griffiths and the first revision book entry can be as much as five years. The date of completion of each book is recorded on the last page. Val1 of 1828 to 1840 was followed by a primary valuation of ireland 1848 to 1864, better known as griffiths valuation. Published countybycounty between the years 1847 and 1864, this important valuation project aimed to decide. If you are unsure, you may to wish to search for books between two defined dates eg 1870 and 1880.
Its main achievement was griffiths primary valuation of 18471864. The survey involved the detailed valuation of every taxable piece of agricultural or built property on the island of ireland and was published countybycounty between the years 1847 and 1864. Griffiths valuation revision books, cancelled books and. Each year, valuation assessors recorded any change in quantity or dimensions of the properties, the. The primary valuation also known as griffiths valuation was published between 1847 and 1864. Published between 1847 and 1864 it provides a detailed county by county record of tax liable on land and buildings for the period. The gestation of griffiths valuation was a complex one, with valuation methods evolving through trial and error, and initial limited aims that only gradually expanded to encompass the full universal valuation. Griffiths valuation 18481864 irelands valuation office conducted its first survey of property ownership in ireland from 1848 to 1864. Griffiths valuation was a land and property valuation designed to establish an equitable tax on property, both buildings and land, for government taxation purposes. According to griffiths valuation 1855, the townland of cloonbur sic that can be found on ordnance sheet 27, had a total acreage of 193 acres 1 roods and 1 perch and was comprised of ten plots. For some parishes more than one house book might survive. One of the musthave genealogical sources for finding your 19th century ancestor in ireland is. By the early 1900s the irish population had fallen by more than half, and these later maps dont show the farms and homesteads documented in the original survey.
Ireland xo insight griffiths valuation and cancelled. At least half the time the map shown is incorrect wrong location, and when the map is of the correct location, it would seem that all of them that i have examined date from later then griffiths valuation, in some cases by many decades. Another online version of griffiths valuation uses later editions of ordnance survey maps that date from forty to eighty years afterwards. The next step after griffiths valuation my genealogy life. You will find a complete price list on griffiths web site. Griffiths valuation 18521855 county clare surname index. Griffiths valuation house books are the notebooks that were used by valuators to. Griffiths valuation, indexed with images in this database, is one of irelands. In turn, all these survey books helped to inform the primary valuation of ireland, otherwise called griffiths valuation, after the projects commissioner, sir richard griffith 17841878. Griffiths valuation revision books, cancelled books and current. Griffiths valuation 18551857 lists of all property holders in each townland in county mayo, the person from whom the property was leased and the size of the holding.
However, you will be able to see the detail of buildings, field boundaries, roads etc. She has a book on the valuation office collection in the works, due out some. A searchable placename index linking to digitised images of valuation revision books covering counties antrim, armagh, down, fermanagh, londonderry and tyrone between the years 1864 to 1933. The experiment was a success, and two tenement valuation acts in 1846 and 1852 authorised griffith to extend the system throughout ireland a procedure he had in fact already begun.
Often, the valuation is the only place you will find any mention of your 19th century irish ancestors in ireland at all. Land valuation tax records house, field, tenure, and quarto books are surviving land valuation notebooks from prior to griffiths valuation. Griffiths valuation is fully searchable online, free of charge on the ask about ireland website. Posts about griffiths valuation written by westwicklowbookshelf. After that, properties were valued annually from 1864 until the early 1930s the annual valuation revision books proni reference. Theres more to griffiths valuation than names by james r. It was to be a further 17 years before the final tranche of the survey was published to complete the primary valuation for the entire island. After about fifteen years, an accumulation of changes, noted in inks of different colours, made these books very crowded and difficult to read. The house books generally date from just before the publication of griffiths valuation of ireland, although in some instances they can predate griffiths by as much as five years. The revisions are not supplemental to this source, they are integral to griffiths valuation. These are bound ledgers, each covering a span of years, which record changes in the ownership and leaseholders. House, field, and tenure books prior to griffiths valuation see also.
Griffiths valuation is now available online on the askaboutireland website. The next step after finding your relative in griffiths valuation is to head to the valuation office in dublin, either in person or remotely. In the past, map copies made at the valuation office were of poor quality. He used the scotch system of valuation and it was a modified version of this that he introduced into ireland when he assumed the position of commissioner of valuation.
Griffiths valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of ireland completed in 1868. Initially the country was divided into unions and this was adjusted to create smaller unit sizes, so that by 1850 there were 163. The results were published between 1847 and 1864, with the southern counties earlier and the northern counties later. Is there more in griffiths valuation than just names. The primary valuation of ireland or griffiths valuation carried out between 1848 and 1864 to determine liability to pay the poor rate for the support of the poor and destitute within each poor law union. When that book became so full of revisions that it could hardly be deciphered, it would have been marked up as a cancelled land book and a new current land book would have been started. Griffiths primary valuation took place throughout ireland during the middle of the 19th century and the valuation of clare was published in 1855. In the meantime, you can refer to another source, for the county years of griffiths valuation.
Griffiths valuation can be used as an excellent census substitute for the years after the great famine as censuses prior to 1901 were destroyed. This is due in part to the publication of the valuations on microfilm and the more recent release on cdrom of a name index to the same. John had been a hedge schoolmaster in the area before tullybrack school was built. The valuation continued on this basis for the next seven years, covering. Over the years, ive looked up a lot of ancestors through griffiths but this book put several new spins on that database. It is called after sir richard griffith, an extraordinary individual who oversaw the entire operation.
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