Kilrane - 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.
ROSSLARE Station, on the railway, between Wexford and Ballygeary, is a quarter of a mile from Kilrane. Wexford is nine miles distant by road. The village is on flat ground, in a good farming district, and consists of fourteen houses, four of which are slated, and the rest thatched. There is neither fair nor market.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Rev. Thos. Cloney, P. P., Tagoat
Rev. B. J. Ennis, C.C., Kilrane
POSTMASTER.
William Murphy
NATIONAL SCHOOL.
Margaret Kehoe, Mistress
BOOTMAKER.
James Pitt
CARPENTER.
Thomas Neill
GROCER AND FLOUR DEALER.
William Murphy
SPIRIT DEALER.
Edmond Fortune
TAILOR.
John Pitt
FARMERS, LAND-OWNERS, &c.
(Postal District.)
Armstrong, F.C.,(B.L.), Ballygeary house
Day, Nicholas, Ballygeary
Fortune, Nicholas, Tenacre
Furlong, James, Hayesland
Furlong, John, Churchtown
Furlong, Thomas, Ballyadragh
Furlong, William, Hayesland
Howlin, James, J.P., Ballycronigan
Lambert, Stephen, Killelane
Murphy, James, Ballygeary
Murphy, Martin, Hayesland
Murphy, Patrick, Newhouses
Parle, John, Ballyreilly
Roche, Arthur, Kilvane
Sandwith, Capt., Ballaline Castle
Sandwith, Col., St. Helens
Stafford, Luke, Ballyhote
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