Because of the loss of national census records, the Griffith's Valuation is the most important census substitute for the 1848-1864 time frame. The valuation gives a complete list of occupiers of land, tenements and houses. The Primary Valuation of Ireland, better known as the Griffith's Valuation, is arranged by counties and within counties by Poor Law Union Divisions and within Unions by parishes.

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There is no comprehensive free database, but there are a number of web sites with parts of the Griffith's Valuation listed below.

A Leitrim Roscommon Galway Mayo Limerick Griffiths DataBase is at www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFITH/lrgrif.html

Clare http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/griffiths/griffith.htm

1857 Griffith's Valuations of Co Donegal http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/griffiths.htm

Cork myhome.ispdr.net.au/~mgrogan/cork/a_griffith.htm

Leitrim-Roscommon  http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFITH/

PRIMARY VALUATION, COUNTY MAYO http://www.ajmorris.com/dig/toc/_01mydx.htm

Lawrencetown 1857 http://lawrencetown.com/history/griffith.htm

South Mayo and North Galway www.shrule.com/_shrule/_display.php?fid=19&pid=181

Waterford County http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/en/familyhistory/griffithsvaluation

Unions of Fermoy, Mallow and Mitchelstown Lane Ballyellis Ballygarrett Co. Cork http://www.sci.net.au/userpages/mgrogan/cork/mallow_gv3.htm

1857 Griffith's Valuation - Parish of Inishmacsaint, Co Donegal &  Parish of Urney at www.ulsterancestry.com/free-genealogy-content.html

The 24 Civil Parishes of North County Galway &  5 Civil Parishes of South County Mayo are at www.lalley.com/search.htm

Mayo 1855-57 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~deesegenes/grif.html

Kerry www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/griffith.html

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