Griffiths Valuation Now Online

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The Irish Library Council recently announced that Griffith's Valuation is
now available online at http://www.askaboutireland.ie. This is a tremendous
help since in the past the

indexes were available at http://www.failteromhat.com/ and other sites, but
in order to view the details one had to pore through reels of microfilm. The
results are available transcribed in web page (.html) format and images of
the original document pages are also available. Maps of the area of interest
are also available both current and historical.

The current maps are from Google, however since there are many instances in
Ireland where multiple locations having the same name exist not only in
different counties but within the same county, it is necessary to carefully
scrutinize the image Google presents to you.

In my case I was looking for a townland called Cregg which is next to
Oughterard.

There are other Creggs in West Galway and Google chose to display one of
those

instead. I was not able to get the website to display the historical version
of the same area.

Happy hunting.