Griffith Valuation, Mulrankin, 1853
In order to produce accurate information for local taxation, the Tenement Act of 1842 provided for a uniform valuation of all property in Ireland. The valuation was based on the productive capacity of land and the potential rents of buildings. Richard Griffith, appointed Commissioner of Valuation, lent his name to the survey. The Griffith Valuation lists every landholder and householder in Ireland.
Never intended as a census, the Griffith Valuation proves invaluable today since the 1851 census has not survived.
The Griffith Valuation took place in Wexford in 1853. The Mulrankin segment of the valuation is transcribed below, in the original order. I have omitted tax values and ordinance survey references from this transcription. However, I have included “description of tenement” as this information is vital in determining the fixed abode of a landholder/householder. For example, Michael Colfer appears twice in the Kilmore segment of the Griffith Valuation – once in Lannagh and once in Sarshill. Upon closer inspection we can see that Michael probably lived in Sarshill as this is the only place where he has a house.
While every effort has been made to correctly and faithfully transcribe these records, no responsibility can be taken for errors.
| Name | Description of Tenement | Townland | Immediate Lessor | Comments |
| Michael Kavanagh | land - house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Michael Pender | house & garden | Ballycappoge | Michael Kavanagh | . |
| William Moran | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Richard Rossiter | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Peter Hayes | house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| James Godkin | house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| John Godkin | house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| James Bolger | land X 2 | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| John Furlong | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| John Stafford | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Robert White | land - house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| James Harpur | house & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Thoms Codd | land X 2 | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Thomas Murphy | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| John Devereux | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Patrick Cardiff | house, offices & land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| Alice Browne | land | Ballycappoge | Charles Jacob | . |
| John Delany | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Thomas Pitt | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Nicholas Byrne | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Patrick Murphy (Moortown) | herd's house & land - land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| John Cousins | land X 2 | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Patrick English | house & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Nicholas Harvey | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| David Cosgrave | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| Matthew McNally | land - house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| James Cumgin | house, offices & land | Ballylibernagh | Benjamin Wilson | . |
| John Whitty | land - house, offices & land - garden | Ballylibernagh | John E Redmond | . |
| Patrick White | house & land | Ballylibernagh | John E Redmond | . |
| William Cahill | house | Ballylibernagh | John Whitty | . |
| Nicholas Stafford | land | Ballylibernagh | John E Redmond | . |
| Patrick Murphy | land | Ballylibernagh | John E Redmond | . |
| Lady Elizabeth King | house, offices & land | Brideswell | in fee | . |
| John Browne | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Constabulary Force | pollice-barrack | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Anthony Cliff | half rent received for police-barracks, £5 10s | Bridgetown North | . | . |
| Bartholomew Cousin | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Denis Quinn | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Alice Scallan | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Stephen Corish | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Mary Connor | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| John Cahill | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Thomas Browne | house | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Michael Lacy | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | John Browne | . |
| Robert Murphy | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Michael Hanton & Peter Ronan | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| James Walsh | house & offices | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| John Brawders | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| Andrew Mullowney | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| Elizabeth Walsh | house | Bridgetown North | Andrew Mulloney | . |
| Patrick Stafford | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| William Taylor | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| Anne Cahill | house | Bridgetown North | Robert Murphy | . |
| Philip Keelin | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Fanning | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Barnewell | house | Bridgetown North | John Fanning | . |
| Michael Kirwan | house | Bridgetown North | John Fanning | . |
| Moses Murphy | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | Richard Scallan | . |
| Stephen Dunne | house | Bridgetown North | Richard Scallan | . |
| John Batterton | house, offices & land | Bridgetown North | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Michael McNally | house | Bridgetown North | John Batterton | . |
| Alice Doran | house | Bridgetown North | John Batterton | . |
| Matthew Flood & William Neill | house | Bridgetown North | John Batterton | . |
| Anthony Cliff | canal & banks | Bridgetown North | in fee | . |
| Richard Jeffers | land - house, offices & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Ellen Hanton & Richard McLaughlin | house | Bridgetown South | Richard Jeffers | . |
| Joseph Fletcher | house | Bridgetown South | Richard Jeffers | . |
| Vacant | house | Bridgetown South | Richard Jeffers | . |
| Patrick Browne | house | Bridgetown South | Richard Jeffers | . |
| James Harpur | house, offices & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Stephen Moran | house & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Patrick Barry | house & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Laurence Donnelly | house & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Patrick Hayes | house | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| John Batterton | house, offices & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Mary Farrell | house, offices & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Laurence Sinnott | land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| John Rowe | land (plantation) | Bridgetown South | in fee | . |
| James Doyle | house & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| John Hayes | land X 2 - house, office & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Martin Keating | land - house, office & land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| John Whitty | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Peter Barry & John Hughes | house, offices & land - land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| Peter Moran | land | Bridgetown South | John Rowe | . |
| John Rowe | canal & banks | Bridgetown South | in fee | . |
| Rev Edward Hallam | land - house, offices & land | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers & Rev _____ Hickey | . |
| Church | church & yard | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers & Rev _____ Hickey | . |
| Parochial school | house | Churchtown | Rev Edward Hallam | . |
| Hannah Weldon | house | Churchtown | Rev Edward Hallam | . |
| Mary Barry | house | Churchtown | Rev Edward Hallam | . |
| John Fanning | land X 2 | Churchtown | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Anne Furlong | house & garden | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Catherine Doyle | house, office & land | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Jane Jeffers | land | Churchtown | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Kelly | house | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Francis Doyle | house, offices & land | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Dispensary | house | Churchtown | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Patrick Devereux | land X 4 | Common | free | . |
| John Farrell | house | Common | free | . |
| Richard Cahill | house & land | Common | Patrick Devereux | . |
| Patrick Jacob | house | Common | Patrick Devereux | . |
| Mary Mullowney | house & garden | Common | Patrick Devereux | . |
| John Pender | house & small garden | Common | Patrick Devereux | . |
| Pierce Sinnott | house & small garden | Common | Patrick Devereux | . |
| Patrick Devereux | house, office & garden | Common | free | . |
| James Garrol | house | Common | Alice Browne | . |
| James Byrne | house & offices | Common | free | . |
| Alice Browne | land X 3 - wind-mill, kilm & land | Common | free | . |
| Thomas Codd | land X 3 | Common | free | . |
| Michael Walsh | land | Common | free | . |
| Richard Connor | house | Common | James Harpur | . |
| James Harpur | house, offices & land - land X 4 | Common | free | . |
| Patrick Fanning | house | Common | James Harpur | . |
| Ellen Cumgin | house & garden | Common | Alice Browne | . |
| Richard Bolger | house & garden | Common | Alice Browne | . |
| Philip Keelin | land | Common | free | . |
| John Roche | house, offices & land | Common | Thomas Codd & free | . |
| William Doyle | house, offices & garden | Common | William Lambert | . |
| Thomas Murphy | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Richard Dunne | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| Michael Kinsella | land - house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Matthew Dillon | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| Patrick Cardiff | land | Common | free | . |
| Margaret Howlin | house & land | Common | free | . |
| Nicholas Walsh | land | Common | free | . |
| John Roche | house & land | Common | free | . |
| Mary Kehoe | house & land | Common | free | . |
| Richard Dillon | land | Common | free | . |
| John Devereux | land | Common | free | . |
| John Pender | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Catherine Connor | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| John Fitzgerald | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| Catherine O'Keefe | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Michael Hogan | house, office & garden | Common | free | . |
| Michael Browne | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| George Dillon | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Thomas Dillon | house, offices & land - land | Common | free | . |
| James Browne | house & land - land | Common | free | . |
| John Sinnott | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| John Finn | house & garden | Common | James Harpur | . |
| Vacant | house & garden | Common | James Harpur | . |
| Catherine Sinnott | house & land | Common | James Harpur | . |
| John Finn & others | commons | Common | free | . |
| John Hayes | house & land | Common | free | . |
| Bridget Browne | land | Common | John Hayes | . |
| Patrick Fenlon | house & garden | Common | Richard Dillon | . |
| Nicholas Lambert | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Philip Cassidy | house | Common | free | . |
| Thomas Parle | house | Common | free | . |
| John Hearne | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Ellen Taaffe | house & office | Common | free | . |
| Laurence Browne | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Common | free | . |
| Rev James Fanning | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| R C Chapel | R C Chapel & yard | Common | free | . |
| Catherine Kelly | house, office & land | Common | free | . |
| John Graham | house | Common | Catherine Kelly | . |
| John Rae | land | Common | free | . |
| Philip Lambert | house, offices & land | Common | free | . |
| Martin Byrne | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| Edmund Edwards | house & garden | Common | free | . |
| Stephen Hayes | house & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Patrick Howlin | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| John Devereux | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Michael Hayes | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Michael Walsh | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Richard Dillon | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Alice Browne | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Thomas Codd | house, offices & land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| John Sinnott | land | Harpoonstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| James Furlong | house, offices & land | Johnstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| James Godkin | land | Johnstown | Earl of Annesley | . |
| Robert Murphy | land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Clement Hagan | house, offices & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| William Hayes | house, offices & land - land X 3 | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Rossiter | house, offices & land - land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Anne harpur | house, offices & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Michael Dunne | house & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Barry | house, office & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| James Dillon | house, office & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| James Moran | house | Lake | James Dillon | . |
| Mary Murphy | house, offices & land | Lake | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Furlong | house, offices & land - land X 3 | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| Peter Sinnott | house, offices & land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| William Lambert | house, offices & land - land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| Peter Scott | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| William Browne | house, offices & land - land | Moor | Laurence Browne & John Rowe | . |
| Michael Hogan | land | Moor | Laurence Browne | . |
| Patrick Devereux | land | Moor | Laurence Browne | . |
| National School | house & land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| James Byrne | land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| Nicholas Furlong | house & land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| Thomas Murphy | house & land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| John Murphy | house, office & land | Moor | John Rowe | . |
| Peter Murphy | house & land | Moor | John Murphy | . |
| Laurence Harpur | house, offices & land | Mountcross | John Rowe | . |
| James Kehoe | house, offices & land | Mountcross | John Rowe | . |
| Richard Devereux | house, offices & land | Mountcross | Jane Jeffers | . |
| James Hayes | house, offices & land | Mountcross | Jane Jeffers | . |
| John Browne | land | Mountcross | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Patrick Doyle | land | Mountcross | Jane Jeffers | . |
| James Bolger | house, offices & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| William Browne | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Rae (farmer) | house, offices & land - land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| James Roche | house, offices & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Catherine Hayes | house, offices & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| James Harpur | land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| William Codd | house, offices & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Steohen Connick | house | Mulrankin | William Codd | . |
| Margaret Kinsella | house, offices & land - land | Mulrankin | William Codd | . |
| Mary Rutley | house & garden | Mulrankin | Margaret Kinsella | . |
| John Rae | house & garden | Mulrankin | Margaret Kinsella | . |
| Richard Jeffers | land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Barry | house, offices & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Patrick Parle | house, offices, corn mill, kiln & land | Mulrankin | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Browne | land | Oldhall | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Furlong | house & land - land | Oldhall | John Browne | . |
| William Murphy | house, office & land | Oldhall | John Browne | . |
| John Murphy | house | Oldhall | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Edward Mackey | house & garden | Oldhall | Jane Jeffers | . |
| James Power | house & land | Oldhall | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Patrick Doyle | house & land | Oldhall | Jane Jeffers | . |
| Jane Jeffers | house, offices & land | Oldhall | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Anthony Cliff | canal & banks | Oldhall | in fee | . |
| William Jeffers | house, offices & land | Rathronan | Anthony Cliff | . |
| John Browne | house, offices & land | Rathronan | Anthony Cliff | . |
| Richard Corish | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Jasper Scallan | house & garden | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Patrick Foley | house & garden | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Patrick Harpur | house | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| James Doyle | house & land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Michael Lacy | land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Elizabeth Fenlon | land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Robert Bernewall | land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Bridget Pierce | land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Patrick Furlong | house & garden | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| John Doyle | land X 4 | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| John Codd | house & land - land X 2 | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Thomas Connor | house, offices & land - land X 2 | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| James Barry | house | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| William rutley | house | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Walter Bryan | house | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Thomas Murphy | house, offices & land - land | Rathyark | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Thomas Sheppard | limestone quarry & kilns | Rathyark | in fee | . |
| John Codd | house, offices & land - land | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Thomas Sinnott | house & office | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Ellen Furlong | house & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Richard Corish | offices & land | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Robert Barnewall | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Mary Carish | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | sic [Carish] |
| John Mahony | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Patrick Boyle | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Mary Carty | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| John Boyle | house & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| John Doyle | house, offices & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Michael Lacy | house, offices & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| patrick kehoe | house | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Bridget Pierce | house & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Elizabeth Fenlon | house, office & garden | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Thomas Sheppard | canal & banks | Sheephouse | Thomas Sheppard | . |
| Patrick Devereux | land X 3 | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| Rev John Kirwan | land | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| John Pender | land | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| James Bryan | house & land | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| Moses Murphy | land | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| Martin Murphy | house | Shouks | Moses Murphy | . |
| Laurence Browne | land | Shouks | John Browne | . |
| John Murphy | house & land | Shouks | John Browne | . |