Griffith's valuation

Griffith's valuation

Griffith's valuation was a survey of Ireland completed in 1868. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Griffith's Valuation. What It Is, and When and How It ... Made. |url= |quote="Griffith's valuation" is a phrase no often heard (but not always understood) ... reference to Irish affairs--the tenant ... of the South and West of Ireland having ... most unanimously resolved not pay ... above the rate fixed by "Griffith's valuation." The origin of the term dates ... nearly fifty years. |publisher=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=January 15, 1881 |accessdate=2007-09-25 ]

Richard John Griffith in 1825 was appointed by the British Government to carry out a boundary survey of Ireland. He was to mark the boundaries of every county, barony, civil parish and townland in preparation for the first Ordnance Survey. He completed the boundary work in 1844. He was also called upon to assist in the preparation of a parliamentary Bill to provide for the general valuation of Ireland. This Act was passed in 1826, and he was appointed Commissioner of Valuation in 1827, but did not start work until 1830 when the new 6" maps, became available from the Ordnance survey. He served as Commissioner until 1868. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Works. Griffith conducted two major valuation surveys. First, was the townland valuation, which was completed in the 1840s and the second was the tenement survey which valued individual property separately for the first time. The tenement valuations of County Dublin were the first to be published on 5 May, 1853 and the last were the valuations of County Armagh on 1 June, 1865.

It was in Scotland that he first started to value land and spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examination of its soils. He used 'the Scotch system of valuation' and it was a modified version of this that he introduced into Ireland when he assumed the Office of Commissioner of Valuation.

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* [http://www.askaboutireland.ie/show_homepage.do?ts=1217195761120&js=1 Search "Griffith's Valuation" on Ask about Ireland website]


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