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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: brecor on Saturday 16 November 13 07:17 GMT (UK)
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The maps used in the Griffiths Valuation were originally drafted by the Ordnance Survey in 1837. I am curious to know if people have found 'new' townlands suddenly appearing at that time. I suspect that there were cases where surveyors, using information and names given to them by locals, effectively split townlands in two. In this way, a townland in the Tithe Applotment Books of the early 1830s, might have had a small section removed and presented under a new name by the time of Griffiths Valuation. The maps of 1837 were by far the most detailed up to that time, and it appears that government officials wished to use them to fix boundaries and names so that they were 'written in stone'. Any 'new' townlands therefore became official. I have also noticed cases where areas of land were exchanged from one townland to another in 1837 - these changes, again, being written in stone. Of course, these irregularities could also be interpreted as being the result of inaccurate Tithe Applotment Books.
So, has anyone noticed similar cases elsewhere in Ireland? I would love to know how widespread these changes were and what caused them.
Thanks
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Hi,
I have come across a similar thing. The townland of Derryork in Co. Londonderry is split between two parishes. Most of it is in Dungiven but a small part is in Bovevagh. I have seen early references to this small part as DERRINABOE or Little Derryork. By the time of Griffiths the whole was known as Derryork