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County of Wexford, Barony of Shelmaliere west, Parish of Horetown, Townland of Cullenstown…Ord S 35&36 (Ordanance survey map reference)

Griffith's Valuation 1853: Reference to Map #34-Occupier: Judith Ryan, Immediate Lessor: John F Heatly, House and Land, 4 acres 1 Rod 25 Perch, valuation £1 15s

Cancelled Books —Valuation Office—at the Irish Life Center, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1 (undated-post 1853)Reference to Map#5 (#34 x'd out) -Occupier: Judith Ryan, Immediate Lessor: John F Heatley, House and Land, 4 acres/1/25, Valuation £1 11s 2d, Rent £2 12s.

Cancelled Books (undated post 1853) #5-Occupier: James Breen, (Judith Ryan x'd out) Immediate Lessor: John F. Heatly, House and Land, 4/1/25, Valuation £1 15s.

Cancelled Books (1870s)) #5-Occupier: William Ryan, Immediate Lessor: Thomas C Ellis, House and Land, 4/1/25, Valuation £1 15s. (notation on index page ‘revised every year 1868-Feb 1879’.)

Cancelled Books (dated 1915) #5-Occupier-James Banville Jr.,(William Ryan x’d out) Immediate Lessor: ‘In Fee L.A.P.’ (I later discovered this means the occupier purchased the land with a loan from the Land Acts Purchase). House and Land, 4/1/25, Valuation £1 15s.

Cancelled Books (dated 1947) #5-Occupier-Robert Banville, (James Banville x’d out) Immediate Lessor-In Fee LAP, House and Land, 4/1/25, house down-1953, Valuation 1£ 25

In 2001, with the help of some kind souls: Anastasia and John Banville of Assagart, County Wexford, who had known James and Robert Banville, I was taken to this parcel of land known locally as the 'brickyard'.

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