Palace - 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.
The directories are naturally an invaluable resource for those tracing family history. However, there are a few points to bear in mind.
- 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.
- 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.
SO-CALLED because it was the site of one of the Palaces of McMurrough, King of Leinster. Nothing now remains of the foundations. It was supposed to have existed on the property of Major Harman. There is no village at the Palace of the post-office. It is two miles from the Dublin and Wicklow Railway Station at Palace East, six miles from New Ross, and eighteen from Wexford. Major Harman’s private residence is the handsomest in the vicinity.
POSTMASTER.
James Moore
SPIRIT DEALER.
James Redmond
FARMERS, LAND-OWNERS, &c.
(Postal District.)
Aspel, R., Ballagh
Barron, A., Robinstown gt.
Connors, James, Templenacrow
Denn, Patrick, Lacken
Devereux, Nich., Knockroe
Doyle, E., Palace west
Doyle, F., Raheenakennedy
Doyle, J., Robinstown gt.
Doyle, Philip, Templenacrow
Dunne, J., Robinstown gt.
Elmes, Thomas S., Robinstown gt.
Fitzharris, N., Knockroe
Galavan, M., Palace w
Harman, Maj. Thomas (J.P.)
Howlett, P., Robinstown l
Irwin, T., Raheenakennedy
Kavanagh, Patrick, Donard
Kehoe, C., Templenacrow
Kehoe, James, Lacken
Keefe, J., Robinstown l
Kelly, John
Kelly, Miles
Kelly, Philip, Palace w
Kelly, Philip, jun., Palace w
Kennedy, J., Robinstown gt
Larkin, J., Robinstown gt
M‘Cabe, John, Ballagh
M‘Donald, M., Templenacrow
M‘Grath, Philip
M‘Grath, Thomas
Molloy, J., Templenacrow
Morris, W., Robinstown gt
Murphy, John, Knockroe
Murray, N., Templenacrow
Murray, P. Templenacrow
Murray, T., Templenacrow
Quigley, J., Robinstown gt
Quigley, P., jun., Palace w
Rochford, J., Raheenakennedy
Shea, J., Templenacrow
Thorpe, David
Wadden, R., Robinstown gt
Waters, Patrick, Knockroe
Whitty, D. Templenacrow
Whitty, John, Palace w
Whitty, M., Robinstown gt
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