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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The directories are naturally an invaluable resource for those tracing family history. However, there are a few points to bear in mind.

  1. 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.
  2. The text has been proofed with due care, but with large bodies of text typographical errors are inevitably bound to occur.
  3. Be aware that there were often inconsistencies in spelling surnames in the 19th century and also that many forenames are abbreviated in Bassett’s directories.

With respect to the last point, surnames which today begin with the “Mc” prefix, for example, were often formerly spelt as “M‘,”. For a list of some of the more common forename abbreviations used in the directory, see Forename Abbreviations.

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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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