Bridgetown - Wexford Guide and Directory, 1885
About “Wexford County Guide and Directory,” 1885
George Henry Bassett produced 7 Irish county directories in the 1880s: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary and Wexford. Each provides useful history of the respective counties as well as lists of office holders, farmers, traders, and other residents of the individual cities, towns and villages.
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- This online version of Bassett’s Wexford County Guide and Directory is designed primarily as a genealogical research tool and therefore the numerous advertisements in the original book, many full page, and quite a few illustrated, have been excluded.
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Population about 100—Trout Fishing.
BRIDGETOWN is in the Barony of Bargy, nine miles, English, from Wexford. The lands surrounding it are good for pasture and tillage, and are watered by a small stream called by the same name. Good shelter is afforded, and the houses of the village are in fair repair, most of them being slated. A fowl market is held once a week, on Monday, and a fair once a month. In the neighbourhood formerly stood three castles; Bridgetown Castle, built by the Keatings; Baldwinstown, by a member of the Montmorency family; and Mulrankin, built by Sir William Le Brune, who came to Ireland with Harvey de Montmorency, and originated the Brown family. The ruins of Baldwinstown Castle are in possession of Mr. Wm. Stafford, and those of Mulrankin are on the farm of Mr. Walter Lambert.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Rev. Father Gorman, P.P.
Rev. Patrick D’Arcy, C.C.
PROTESTANT CHURCH (I.C.)
Rev. John Alexander, Rector
POSTMASTER.
John Batterton
CIVIL BILL OFFICER.
William Taylor
DISPENSARY DOCTOR.
Patrick Donellan
ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.
Nicholas Crahan, sergeant
NATIONAL SCHOOL.
James Byrne, Master
Kate Whitty, Mistress
PROTESTANT SCHOOL.
John Fanning, Master
BILL POSTER.
Mathew Keating
BOOTMAKERS.
Cahill, Michael
Kehoe, James
BUTCHER.
Patrick Doyle
CARPENTER.
Mathew Nagle
COOPERS.
Meyler, Martin
King, James
DRESSMAKER.
Johanna Farrell
GROCERS, FLOUR AND PROVISION DEALERS.
[Those marked thus (*) are Licensed to sell Spirits.]
Brown, Ml., Manure & News Agent
*Connors, James
Dillon, John
*Scallan, William
LIME BURNER.
John Rochford.
MILLINER.
Margaret Kehoe
SMITH.
John Hore
TAILOR.
Stephen Corish
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, &c.
(Postal District.)
Barry, Patrick, Croase
Batterton, Richard, Ballybought
Bent, Patrick, Cousinstown
Bolger, James, Mulrankin
Browne, Mary, Common
Browne, Michael, Bridgetown
Byrne, James, Yoletown
Byrne, J., Ballylibernagh
Byrne, John, Muchtown
Cardiff, Joseph R., Kilcowan
Cardiff, Patrick, Ballycapogue
Codd, John, Newtown, lr
Codd, John, The Dirr
Codd, Nicholas, Kilcowan, upr
Cody, Thomas, St. Tenants
Coghlan, James, Croase
Coghlan, Nicholas, Johnstown
Coghlan, Thomas, Croase
Coghlan, Walter, Scotsland
Connor, James, Bridgetown, n
Connor, Thomas, Norristown
Connors, Robert, Rathyark
Corish, William, Mulrankin
Crean, William, Beckville
Day, James, Cousinstown
Devereux, Nicholas, Mountcross
Dillon, F., Harpoonstown
Dillon, John, Bridgetown, n
Dunne, John, Brownstown
Esmonde, James, Mulrankin
Farrell, Pat, Bridgetown, s
French, Peter, Harpoonstown
Furlong, M., Russellstown
Furlong, Patrick, Ballyharty
Furlong, Peter, Cooleycall
Furlong, T., Russellstown
Furney, Lemuel, Ballycross
Gordon, James, Norristown
Greene, Thomas, Tullibards
Harper, John, Yoletown
Harpur, William, Mountcross
Howlett, Nicholas, Rathyark
Joyce, John, Croase
Moran, John, Moor
Murphy, James, Lake
Nolan, John, Cornerstown
Kelly, Nicholas, Newtown
Khemson, J., Ballylibernagh
King, F., Tullibards little
Lambert, John, Cousinstown
Lambert, Walter, Mulrankin
Murphy, John, Bridgetown, n
Murphy, P., St. Tennants
Neill, Patrick, Shanoo
Nunn, Edward, Silverspring
Parle, Patrick, Mulrankin
Power, James, Knocknoran
Radford, John, Norristown
Ray, Patrick, Knocknoran
Reed, George, Ballycapogue
Roche, Joseph, Cooleycall
Rashford, Patrick, Croase
Rowe, Francis, Ralphtown
Sinnott, John, Ballyharty
Sinnott, Patrick, Moortown
Stafford, Edmund, Baldwinstown
Stafford, William, Baldwinstown
Swan, J.P.,Newhouse, Baldwinst’n
Taylor, Christopher, Tullibards
Walsh, Richard, Grascur little
Walsh, Thomas, Russellstown
Walsh, Walter, Croase
Webster, Thomas, Pullingtown
White, John L., Newhouse
White, Peter, Cousinstown
Whitty, Patrick, Oldhall
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