Richard Griffith And His Valuation of Ireland New Genealogy Book

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Richard Griffith and His Valuations of Ireland
with an Inventory of the Books of the General Valuation of      Rateable Property in Ireland . . .
James R. Reilly
Volume  totaling  108 pages. Book  is in excellent condition.   Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Richard Griffith (b. Dublin 1784) had already established      himself as a distinguished geologist and inspector of Irish mines when, in      1825, he was chosen to be Ireland's Boundary Surveyor. Griffith's      appointment coincided with the government's determination to achieve a      uniform system of land measuring and valuing for the purpose of eliminating      various inequities in levying the two main forms of local taxation in      Ireland, the tithe and the county cess, at the townland level. 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      Ordnance Survey of Irish townlands which fixed local boundaries throughout      the nation. The Ordnance Survey documents, comprising over 3,000 maps and      2,300 registers, and Griffith's valuations of 1826, 1846, and 1852, were the      surviving products of Griffith's efforts, and they constitute perhaps the      greatest sources in all of Irish genealogy.
In recent years more Irish researchers than before have      achieved a passing familiarity with Griffith's valuations. This is due in      part to the publication of the valuations on microfilm and the more recent      release on CD-ROM of a name index to the same (see our CD #7188, An Index to      Griffith's Valuation ). Very few people, however, know much about Griffith      the man, the methodology behind the records, or, most important, how to make      the best possible genealogical use of these sources. Thanks to the efforts      of author James Reilly, this need not be the case any longer.
The content of
Richard Griffith and His Valuations of      Ireland
can be said to be divided into two parts. The first half of the      volume treats the history and method used by Griffith and his colleagues in      producing the valuations. Here Reilly explains how the surveys were      conducted, how standard Irish forms of townland names were assigned, how the      descriptive Ordnance Survey Memoirs were compiled, and what one can expect      to find within their rich contents. In separate chapters devoted to the      three valuations, Reilly describes, among other things, how the valuators      assigned a value to property, how the information was publicized, and the      relationship of the valuations to the new Irish Poor Laws. Facsimile      illustrations of maps, memoirs and other documents from the valuations      abound here as they do in the second half of the work, a discussion of      Griffith's genealogical importance.
Although the Griffith's is not a census (many people regard      it as a substitute for the Irish censuses lost in the Public Record Office      fire of 1922), "Griffith's Primary Valuation," or simply "Griffith's      Valuation," as it has come to be known, provides the following information      for each tenement in each Irish townland: names of townland and occupiers,      names of immediate lessors, description of tenement, acreage, valuation of      land and buildings, and reference to the corresponding map from the Ordnance      Survey. Given its content and its proximity to the Great Famine of the late      1840s, Griffith's Valuation has taken on great importance for genealogists.      In the genealogical section of his treatise, Mr. Reilly burrows into the      intricacies of the valuations, showing how an understanding of the      abbreviations and shorthand used by the valuators can lead the researcher      from the valuation to other Irish records and additional discoveries      concerning one's ancestors. The rich appendices that follow include a      glossary of key terms appearing in the valuations, dates of publication of      the Ordnance Survey Memoirs, county-by-county commencement and completion      dates of the tenement valuations conducted from 1846 to 1864, and an      extensive inventory of the Books of Sir Richard Griffith's General Valuation      of Rateable Property in Ireland.
In conclusion, thanks to Mr. Reilly's prodigious effort, no      one who has ever operated in the dark with respect to the Griffith's need do      so again, while anyone who consults
Richard Griffith and His Valuations      of Ireland
is likely to come away with a far greater number of trails to      follow among Irish records than he/she had ever anticipated.
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. This is volume four in a five volume series by Margaret M. Hofmann.  This volume is compiled from loose Granville District papers - entries, warrants, and plats - on file at NC State Archives. Counties included are
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