Ballycullane - Wexford Guide and Directory, 1885
About “Wexford County Guide and Directory,” 1885
George Henry Bassett produced 7 Irish county directories in the 1880s: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary and Wexford. Each provides useful history of the respective counties as well as lists of office holders, farmers, traders, and other residents of the individual cities, towns and villages.
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- This online version of Bassett’s Wexford County Guide and Directory is designed primarily as a genealogical research tool and therefore the numerous advertisements in the original book, many full page, and quite a few illustrated, have been excluded.
- The text has been proofed with due care, but with large bodies of text typographical errors are inevitably bound to occur.
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THIS is a village, the population of which is less than 100. Kinnagh, a short distance from it, for many years had the Post Office. It was removed to Ballycullane, the latter being a more central point of distribution. Ballycullane is in the Barony of Shelburne, 9 miles from New Ross and 16 from Wexford. The nearest railway station is Ballywilliam, 9 miles. The lands of the vicinity are fair for pasture and tillage, and the interesting places, Tintern Abbey, 2¼ miles, and the Seven Castles of Clonmines, 2 miles.
Rev. Andrew O’Farrell, P.P.
Rev. J. Roice, C.C., St. Leonard’s
Rev. Richard Kavanagh, C.C.
Robert Cardiff, Post Master
Johnson G. Hunt, Dispensary Doctor
James Berney, Relieving Officer
Tintern—John Feeny, sergt R.I.C.
David Fitzgibbon, Master Nat. Schl
Mary Cardiff, Mistress
DRAPERS.
P. Power, Thomas Ronan
DRESSMAKER.
Mrs. Stafford
GROCER & SPIRIT DEALER.
Patrick Power
MILLER.
John Lacey, Yo n ltwoe [Yoletown?]
FARMERS, LAND-OWNERS, &c.
(Postal District.)
Ahearn, John
Ahearne, James, Ballygarvan
Barron, Moses, Dunmain
Bassett, Walter, Coolroe
Brennan, William, Ballygarvan
Bryan Mathew, Clonmines
Byrne, J. E., Burkstown
Byrne, Patrick, Boley
Clarke, R., Ballygowney
Codd, Richard, Clonmines
Conway, Michael, Cloonagh
Conway, Michael, Curraghmore
Cooley, James, Cloonagh
Cooley, W., Burkstown
Cosgrave, C., Taylorstown
Cowman, John, Yoletown
Cowman, Patrick, Yoletown
Deegan, James, Garryduff
Delaney, J., Taylorstown
Doran, Francis, Coolroe
Downes, Michael, Kinnagh
Doyle, James, Garryduff
Doyle, William, Dunmain
Dunn, Michael, Nash
Egan, David, Boley
Fitzgerald, P., St. Leonards
Fitzharris, John, Boley
Fitzharris, Laurence, Boley
Furlong, William, Coolroe
Cavan, John, Kinnagh
Hanlon, James, Clonmines
Hennessy, James H., Garryduff
Howlett, James, Garryduff
Kehoe, Mathew, Cloonagh
Kinsella, James, Boley
Lacey, Marks, Boley
Lacey, Peter, Boley
Larkin, Thomas, Dunmain
Long, Mathew, Dunmain
M‘Donald, T., Curraghmore
M‘Grath, John, Burkstown
Murphy, Laurence, Kinnagh
Murphy, L., jun., Kinnagh
Murphy, Patrick, Kinnagh
Neill, Laurence, Garryduff
Neville, W., Bealestown
Power, Jeffary, Ballinruan
Power, John, Ballytarsna
Redmond, James, Cloonagh
Redmond, Martin, Yoletown
Redmond, Thomas, Yoletown
Reville, Nicholas, Ballycullen
Roice, Richard, Ballygarvin
Rossiter, Peter, Ballytarsna
Ryan, James, Yoletown
Scott, Patrick, Cloonagh
Shannon, Laurence, Ballygarvan
Shannon, James, Ballygarvin
Sinnott, Gregory, Dunmain
Sinnott, Laurence, Kinnagh
Sinnott, Richard, Dunmain
Stafford, Richard, Clonmines
Stafford, Thomas, Clonmines
Summers, Edward, Coolroe
Tierney, Laurence, Rathumney
Walsh, Christopher, Garryduff
Walsh, John, Clonmines
Walsh, John, Taulaught
Walsh, Patrick, Milltown
Wickham, Thomas, Milltown
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