Griffiths Valuation Question

PCGEN

In wikipedia, it provides the date that griffiths valuation was completed for each county. However, are dates available to be more specific for this? For example, is it possible to know when a townland was completed? Or a parish? If so, how do you find this date?

shanew

a publication date for each section of the valuation can be worked out. The version of Griffiths on the AskAboutIreland website will give you the year, but the full date is toward the front of the various books, usually grouped by Barony, or part of. If you post the location details I'll work it out, and use that as an example...

The publication date would generally be within a couple of weeks of the final survey

PCGEN

This is the area I'm interested in

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=574772

Your help is appreciated

shanew

PCGEN wrote: »

This is the area I'm interested in

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&PlaceID=574772

Your help is appreciated

Carrowreagh townland, Dunmore civil parish, Barony of Dunmore, Tuam PLU, Co. Galway. If you click on the 'Details' icon of the page linked, you can see 'Printing Date 1855', but the more detailed publication date for this section of the Valuation is 10th December 1855.

To start you need to view the actual valuation page by clicking the 'Original Page' icon on the search results. That should get you to a page image headed 'Valuation of Tenements, Parish of Dunmore' with details for several townlands including Carrowreagh.

The dating details are located at the front of each publication and there are two ways to get to that page - the first is by continuously clicking the 'Previous Page' link at the top left which can take a while, the second is a little 'techie' but easier than it sounds...

Check the URL (web address) on the page image clicked in the steps above - for this example should look something like this :

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/z/zoomifyDynamicViewer.php?file=120144&path=./pix/120/&rs=2&showpage=1&mysession=************&width=900&height=680

The key detail is the 'file' parameter, in this case 120144, and the last three digits of this. The 144 is the page number, so we want to skip back to the beginning - page 1, but retain the format of the link. Edit the URL in your browser and carefully delete the 144 just before the &path and enter 001 (zero zero one) instead, and press enter... should show the header page.

In this image file 120001 is the facing page with the heading Valuation for 'County of Galway, Union of Tuam', and lower down 'Dated at the General Valuation Office, No. 2 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin this 10th Day of December 1855'.

You can browse forward from this page with the next page link at the top of the view to see the introduction pages of the valuation - references, note on appeals etc. There's also an index showing baronies, parishes and townlands covered in the selected volume.