What is Griffiths Valuation ?

Griffith’s Valuation,is one of Ireland’s premier genealogical resources, referencing approximately one million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. Griffith’s Valuation, or Primary Valuation of Ireland, was executed under the direction of Sir Richard Griffith to provide a basis for determining taxes. This involved establishing the value of all privately held lands and buildings in both rural and urban areas in order to figure a rental rate for each unit of property. The resulting survey was arranged by barony and civil parish, with an index to townlands appearing in each volume. The original volumes of the survey are held in the National Archives, Dublin, and Public Record Office, Belfast.Griffith’s Valuation is an invaluable reference for family historians with ancestors in Ireland in part because no census material from the nineteenth century has survived. In effect, because it is the only detailed guide to where in Ireland people lived in the mid-nineteenth century and what property they owned or leased, Griffith’s Valuation serves as a census substitute for the years before, during, and after the Great Famine. Griffith’s Valuation is also a valuable record of social and economic data and includes map reference numbers that can help researchers identify and perhaps locate property on Ordinance Survey maps created before the valuations took place.Few other records can be used to identify an Irish ancestor’s exact place of origin, and only Griffith’s Valuation links an individual to a specific townland and civil parish. This is extremely important, since the first step in Irish genealogical research is to identify an ancestor’s townland and civil parish, which can lead you to ecclesiastical parish records of births and marriages.

Records in this database are indexed by:

• Name of occupier
• Name of leaser
• County of residence
• Barony of residence
• Parish of residence
• Townland of residence
• In addition, pages from the Valuation may include street, subdivision, and ordinance survey page numbers, as well as a description of property, acreage, and valuation.

• County	Date of completion of survey
  Carlow	28 June 1853
  Cork	20 July 1853
  Dublin	9 July 1853
  Kerry	19 July 1853
  Kilkenny	8 July 1853
  Kilkenny City	8 July 1853
  Limerick	29 June 1853
  Limerick City	29 June 1853
  Queen’s County	28 June 1853
  Tipperary	29 June 1853
  Waterford	5 July 1853
  Waterford Borough	5 July 1853
  Dublin City	31 Oct 1854
  Kildare	18 July 1854
  Wexford	7 July 1854
  Wicklow	4 July 1854
  King’s County	2 July 1855
  Longford	6 July 1855
  Louth	5 July 1855
  Drogheda Borough	6 July 1855
  Meath	10 July 1855
  Westmeath	5 July 1855
  Clare	3 July 1856
  Galway Town	14 July 1856
  Cavan	25 June 1857
  Galway	29 June 1857
  Leitrim	6 July 1857
  Mayo	13 July 1857
  Donegal	6 July 1858
  Roscommon	1 July 1858
  Sligo	7 July 1858
  Londonderry	16 July 1859
  Tyrone	13 July 1860
  Monaghan	1 July 1861
  Antrim	10 July 1862
  Carrickfergus	10 July 1862
  Fermanagh	4 July 1864
  Down	12 July 1864
  Armagh	1 June 1865

• Tyrone’s started in 1851, and this is was how Listamlet was then in 1860

Griffiths valuation can be accessed through askaboutIreland ,and the Family’s living in 1860 Listamlet ,can be found here ,there are three pages to be seen,

• understanding the valuation 
• Map of Listamlet 1860
• occupiers of houses  in Listamlet 1860 ,three pages can be found here