Inch - 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.
THE parish of Inch is five miles English from Gorey, on the Inch or Owengorman river, which abounds in trout and salmon. The principal occupation of the inhabitants is dairy-farming. The houses in the immediate vicinity of the post office include the rectory, schools, and church. Several handsome private residences are in the district, as are also the ruins of Kilgorman and Kilcavan churches. A battle was fought in Inch by the armies of King William and James II., on the retreat of the latter from the Boyne.
Rev. Gibson Black, Rector (I.C.)
Lucy Byrne, Postmistress
James Palmer, R.O.
W. Willis, Sergeant R.I.C.
Michael Bowes, master National School, Castletown
E. R. Bowes, mistress National School, Castletown
John Brown, master Protestant School, Inch
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, &c.
Beaky, Edward, Kilpatrick
Bergen, Edward, Moneyribbon
Boland, Denis, Pallis lower
Brazil, Thomas, Whitepark
Brennan, Patrick, Clonranny
Browne, John, Clones upper
Bushe, Henry, Tomcoyle hill
Bushe, Myles, Mullawn
Butler, John, Rathpierce lower
Byrne, John Butler, Ballylarkin
Condron, Laurence, Mongarrow
Condron, Michael, Killybegs
Cooke, John, Bolabreda
Cullen, James, Tinneban
Doyle, Laurence, Mongarrow up.
Dunne, Thomas, Barraghcurragh
Ellis, Thomas Cupples, St. Austin
Erratty, J., Ballynestragh demesne
Finn, Denis, Tinneban
Fitzwilliam, Denis, Killowen lr.
Freeman, George, Newtown
Garvey, James, Monareagh
Gilbert, Joseph, Ahare
Graham, George, Croghan upper
Grannell, Thomas, Scarnagh lr.
Hackett, Thomas, Coolroo great
Hall, Henry, Ballylarkin
Hall, John, Kilbegnet
Hanlon, David, Castletown
Hayden, Mathew, sen., Aske
Hegan, Mathew, Ballywilliam
Hempenstall, Chas., Ballyellin up.
Hempenstall, George, Ashwood lr.
Hughes, John, Forchester lower.
Jackson, Thomas, Ballyellin lower
Jones, James, Pallis upper
Kerr, Rev. W., Borleigh demesne
Kilbride, Rev. Henry N., Glebe
Kinch, Mathew, Ballyellin upper
Kinsellah, Andrew, Tomnahely
Kinsellah, John, Kilgorman
Kinsellah, Martin, Ballyconlore
Kinsella, Martin, Newtown lower
Kinsellah, Michael, Kilmichael
Lacy, Arthur, Boleybawn
McCarthy, Peter, Askinch lower
M‘Dermott, Patrick, Tinnock up.
M‘Donald, Thomas, Clones upper
Manifold, John, sen., Clonranny
Manning, Anthony, Newtown lr.
Metge, Cusack, Larch hill
Metge, John, Larch hill
Moore, William, Knockbawn
Morris, Robert T., Rathpierce up.
Reilly, John, Cullinogue
Sharp, Robert, Ashwood upper
Stafford, James, Ashwood lower
Toole, Terence, Forchester lower
Ward, Bryan, Inch
Whitmore, Robert, Ahare
Whitmore, Robert, Macoyle up.
Woodburne, John, Pallis hill
Woodroofe, Abel H., Killowen up
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