User:Jnestorius/List of Irish surveys

Name	Surveyor	Dates	Notes	Refs
Desmond		Elizabeth	Of lands forfeited after the Desmond Rebellions; by Inquisition out of Chancery or the Exchequer
Escheated counties of Ulster		1609	After Nine Years' War, before Plantation of Ulster
Strafford		1630s	Commissioned by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, of the province of Connacht (and Thomond?) which he had requisitioned for the king; by Inquisition out of Chancery or the Exchequer
Surveys of manors to be granted for special services	Richard Francis (2), Thomas Jackson (2)	1652–3	Four grants: Gormanstown and St Tulloch's; Carrick(-on-Suir?) in Munster; Terrmore in Leinster; Kilmainham. After 1641 Rebellion.
Gross Survey	Benjamin Worsley Surveyor General of Ireland	1653
Civil Survey		1654-56
Down Survey	William Petty
Boundary Survey	Richard Griffith	1825-
6-inch Ordnance Survey (1st edition)	Ordnance Survey of Ireland
Townland Valuation	Richard Griffith	18?? - 184?	First part of Griffith's valuation
Tenement Valuation	Richard Griffith		Second part of Griffith's valuation
25-inch Ordnance Survey (1st edition)	Ordnance Survey of Ireland

1824 report

What surveys of Ireland have been done?

• The oldest map of Ireland is in Arrow-smith's memoir, on the construction of the map of Scotland, being of the fourteenth century.
• A map of Ireland was published in the reign of queen Eii2abeth, bcale 14 English miles to an inch.
• Speed, in 1610, when James the ist was colonizing the north of Ireland, gave in a general map.
• About the time of Charles the 1st, was published a map of Ireland.
• A map of Ireland, during the middle ages, by William Beaufort.
• Richard Blome, by His Majesty's orders, made a map of Ireland.
• A survey and valuation was made of Ireland, called the Strafford survey.
• Sir William Petty published an Atlas of the county maps of Ireland. These maps point out the boundaries of parishes and baronies, but not of townlands. The barony maps in the Record Tower, Dublin Castle, by Sir William Petty, are on a scale of 40 perches to an inch ; they distinguish the boundaries of parishes and townlands; the bogs are all dotted, and the hills and mountains are drawn in profile; a great part of the maps were destroyed when Dublin Tower was burnt, but have bpen replaced by copies taken by General Valiancy and Major Taylor, from the original maps in two volumes, in the king's library at Paris, which had been captured in the Irish channel, by a French privateer, and carried to France, where they now remain. I examined them in 1821, in the king's library, and with some difficulty was permitted to copy the map of the barony of Tyrawly, which was all it contained of that county. The number of the authenticated copies in the surveyor general's office, Record Tower, Dublin Castle, is about 1,430 ; of these about 260 are of the baronies, and the remaining 1,170 of the parishes; about 67 of the barony maps are burned, with more or less injury; 130 are fully preserved, and two are stated to be lost. Of the parochial maps, about 391 have suffered from the fire, and about 780 have altogether escaped." Shaw Mason's Statistical Memoirs of Wi'Maw JBoW.
• The Down survey, in two large volumes, is to be found in the Bibliotheque du Roi, at Paris, in the manuscript department of the Library; they were, when I looked them over, in considerable preservation, and seemed to be carefully attended to.
• A map of Ireland in 1716, by Thomas Bakewell.
• Ditto in 1720, by Senex.
• Herman Moll gave a map of Ireland.
• Charles O'Connor's map of Ireland, containing the names of the septs at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
• Map of Ireland, improved from Ortelius, contains proprietors names, 1777.
• Ireland, by Pratt, six sheets.
• D° J. Rocque, four d".
• D° C. Bowles, d".
• D° Jefferies, one d°.
• D" Kitchin, one d\ Major Taylor's map of Ireland, one sheet, 1793.
• Beaufort's map of Ireland, two sheets, 1797.
• Arrowsmith's map of Ireland, four sheets, 1811.
• Taylor and Skinner's map of the roads of Ireland, in 1777.
• Survey of the bogs in Ireland, 1810, 1811, 1812, by Mr. Griffiths, Mr. Edge-worth, Mr. Jones, Mr. Nimmo, Mr. Aher, Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Brassington, Mr. Longfield, and myself: there were surveys made of the flat bogs of Ireland to an extent of nearly two million of acres. Ireland, however, contains between flat bog and mountain bog three million of acres; and if the mean depth be taken at three yards, there will be in Ireland 7,055,247,360 cubic yards of bog soil; when we consider this enormous quantity of vegetable matter, still increasing, combined with the coal fields, Ireland may be said to be abundant in fuel; the natural inland navigation by lakes and rivers, combined with the canals already in existence, offer communication in many directions.
• County of Dublin, published in 1760 by John Rocque, scale not quite six inches to three English miles.
• Survey of the county of Dublin, by William Duncan, principal draughtsman to the quarter-master general of Ireland, published in 1821, scale three inches to one mile, and has been constructed on trigonometrical principles.
• County of Louth, surveyed by Taylor and Skinner in i777,"scale two inches to one mile.
• A survey of Louth is now going on by Mr. John M'Niel.
• County of Armagh, surveyed by John Rocque, scale two inches to one mile j states the impossibility of finding the barony bounds, and had recourse to Sir William Petty's surveys.
• Wexford, surveyed by Valentine Gill, four sheets.
• Westmeath, by William Larkin, in 180
• Meath, d° cV Scale of the published maps, / two inches to one mile.
• Waterford Leitrim Galway Cavan All Mr. Larkin's county surveys were protracted from a scale of four inches to one Irish mile, but do not appear to have been constructed from triangular mea; surements.
• Cork, surveyed by Edwards and Savage in 1811.
• Londonderry, by the Rev. G. V. Sampson in 1813, accompanied by a statistical memoir; sections on the map, scale two inches to one mile.
• Longford, surveyed by William Edgeworth. This map has been constructed from trigonometrical data.
• Roscommon, by Messrs. Edgeworth and Griffiths. This survey has been done Mr, trigonometrically. The engraving has been executed in a most superior manner.
• County of Down, scale one inch to a mile; published in 1755. Hills drawn in profile ; no surveyor's name to the map; it has soundings along the coast.
• County of Down, by Williamson, in 1810.
• Antrim, by John Lendrick, in 1780.
• Kildare, by Major Alexander Taylor, in 1783. Scale one inch and half to a mile.
• Kerry, by Pelham.
• Ditto, by Porter.
• Wicklow, by Jacob Neville, in 1760.
• Clare, by Henry Pelham, in 1787; scale one inch and half to the Irish mile.
• Kilkenny has been surveyed by Mr. David Aher in townlands.
• Limerick, King's County, Donegall, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Carlow, Queen's Cqunty, Tipperary, Mayo and King's County, have all been surveyed.

Valuations

• 1839 Report of Poor Law valuation for Balrothery Union says valuers relied on tithe composition, county cess applotment, and ordnance survey.
• 1842 Commissioners to revise Laws by which Monies are raised by Grand Jury Presentments in Ireland: report, minutes of evidence and appendix

  It has been suggested to us that all Local Rates should be regulated according to the Valuations made under the Poor Relief Act, but it does not appear to us that the Poor Law Valuations are made upon any settled principle, equally applicable to all parts of the Country. They are in general much below the letting value of land, and are in some Unions under it in a much greater degree than in others. ... Under the General Valuation Act, which Mr. Griffith is carrying into execution, the case is different. ... an estimate is then made of the value of the produce it is capable of yielding ... and a rent is afterwards set down for it which is calculated with reference to the estimated value of the produce, and to local circumstances according to one general rule. The Valuation of all parts of the Country is thus sure to be relatively equal, ... For these reasons, we think tho Law which directs all County Rates to be levied according to the Valuation made under the General Valuation Acts ought not to be disturbed; but as some years must elapse before the General Valuation can be completed throughout Ireland, and as, in the mean time, the existing system of Applotment in many places, is felt as a crying grievance, we have inquired of Mr. Griffith whether he could cause a prompt revision to be had of the Poor Law Valuations, in those Counties in which the General Valuation has not been perfected, so as to adjust any differences that might be complained of between those of different Unions in the same County, and, by correcting errors, to render it safe that the County Rate should be applotted for the present according to them, and he is of opinion that he could.

References

• Hardinge, W. H.; Ridgeway, Thomas (December 1861). "On Mapped Surveys of Ireland". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 8: 39–55. JSTOR 20488800. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
• Hardinge, W. H. (1873). "On Manuscript Mapped and Other Townland Surveys in Ireland of a Public Character, Embracing the Gross, Civil, and Down Surveys, from 1640 to 1688". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24, Antiquities: 3–118. JSTOR 30079258.
• Hardinge, W. H. (1873). "A Concluding Memoir on Manuscript Mapped and Other Townland Surveys in Ireland, from 1688 to 1864". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24, Antiquities: 265–315. JSTOR 30079260.
• Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland (21 June 1824). REPORT. Sessional papers. Vol. (8) 445. pp. 63–64.