Duncormick - 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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Population about> 350—Trout Fishing.
THE Village of Duncormick lies to the south-west of Wexford 9½ miles, Irish, and is 4 miles from Kilmore Quay. A river passes through, which is good for trout fishing, and being tidal for a mile to the sea, is navigable for sand, and other boats, of light burden. The houses are, for the most part, slated, and of comfortable appearance. A fowl market is held weekly, on Mondays, but there are no fairs. The lands of the district are better for tillage than pasture. Duncormick Castle, whose site was on a hill, near the village, was standing in the earlier half of the century. Various accounts exist as to its destruction. One authority has it that having been undermined by treasure hunters it fell, without premonition, into a heap of ruins. A resident who remembers it well, and who was on its high tower the day before its destruction, testifies that it was split by a stroke of lightning. The land on which it stood is the property of Mr. Frank Boxwell, Kirlogue, Wexford.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Rev. John Doyle, P.P., Rathangan
Rev. J. O’Brien, C.C.,Clearystown
PROTESTANT CHURCH (I.C.)
Rev. Robt. Deane, Rector
POSTMASTER.
Thomas Sinnott
RELIEVING OFFICER.
Frank Dillon
ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.
William Carroll, Constable
NATIONAL SCHOOL.
Thomas Brady, Master
Ellen Hayes, Mistress
BAKERS.
Patrick and William Hayes
BOOTMAKERS.
Bent, John and Robert
CARPENTERS.
Cox, Walter
Stafford, Stephen
CLUBS.
National League, sec.—William Stafford, Baldwinstown
DRAPERS.
Pettit, Mary
Sinnott, Thomas
GROCERS, FLOUR DEALERS, ETC.
(Marked thus * has license to sell spirits.)
Cullen, Walter
Pettit, Mary
*Sinnott, John
Sinnott, Thomas
MANURE AGENTS.
Cullen, Walter
Sinnott, J., sen. (and seeds)
MILLERS.
Jeffares, Richard, Rath
Parle, Matt., Amhrosetown
POST CAR OWNERS.
Hayes, Patrick
Murphy, Laurence
SMITHS.
Barrington, Richard
Hughes, Peter
OILS, COLORS AND MEDICINES.
John Sinnott, jun.
TAILOR.
Richard Quinn
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, etc.
(Postal District).
Barry, Nicholas
Barry, Joseph, Lacken
Breen, John, Redmoor
Brennan, Denis, Gibberwell
Browne, William, Park
Byrne, Nicholas, Belgrove
Byrne, Nicholas, Gurlins
Cleary, James, Duncormick hill
Cleary, Martin, Duncormick hill
Cullen, John, Duncormick
Corish, John, Blackstone
Cullen, David, Rathangan
Doyle, J., Scurloguesbush
Ffrench, Thomas, Johnstown
French, Martin, Johnstown
Furlong, James, Knocktown
Furlong, James, Rath
Furlong, James, Rathangan
Furlong, Peter, Lacken
Furlong, Peter, Killag
Furlong, Walter, Redmoor
Goff, John, Cull
Harper, Michael, Blackstone
Hickey, W., Ambrosetown
Hore, N., Ambrosetown
Jeffares, Richard, Rath
Jordan, R., Rochestown
Kavanagh, James, Scar
Kavanagh, Thomas, Scar
Miskilla, James, Johnstown
Morris, William, Killag
Murphy, James, Cull
Murphy, James, Robinstown
Murphy, Mary A., Gibberpatrick
Murphy, J., jun, Robinstown
Murphy, Martin, Soughane
Murphy, Patrick, Glebe
Murphy, Richard, Horesland
Neill, Richard, Soughane
Nowlan, William, Weneytown
Parle, Ann, Johnstown
Power, John, Park
Roche, James, Levitstown
Rochford, W., Belgrove cross
Rossiter, Thomas, Cull
Sheridan, N., Riverstown
Siggins, Robert, Horesland
Sinnott, James, Rathangan
Sinnott, W., Gibberpatrick
Stafford, John, Rathangan
Stafford Laurence, Scar
Walsh, John, Gibberpatrick
Walsh, Richard, Knocktown
Warriner, Robert, Johnstown
White, Edward, Nicharee
White, James, Gibberwill
White, Catherine, Scotsland
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