Oylgate - 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.
The directories are naturally an invaluable resource for those tracing family history. However, there are a few points to bear in mind.
- 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.
- The text has been proofed with due care, but with large bodies of text typographical errors are inevitably bound to occur.
- Be aware that there were often inconsistencies in spelling surnames in the 19th century and also that many forenames are abbreviated in Bassett’s directories.
With respect to the last point, surnames which today begin with the “Mc” prefix, for example, were often formerly spelt as “M‘,”. For a list of some of the more common forename abbreviations used in the directory, see Forename Abbreviations.
PURSUING the charming road from Enniscorthy by the Dane’s Castle at Brownswood, the village of Oylgate is reached at a distance of six miles. A majority of its residents are salmon fishers of the Slaney. The nearest railway station is Macmine, one mile. There has lately been built a row of ornamental houses by Sir J. T. Power, Bart. The houses generally are in good repair. A fowl market is held weekly, on Thursday. Population, 123.
Rev. Michael Cosgrave, P.P.
Rev. Thomas Meehan, C.C.
Rev. Frederick Thompson, Rector I.C., Edermine and Ballyhuskard
Rev. Mr. Burnett, Curate
Eliza Murphy, Postmistress
Thomas Kelly, Dispensary doctor
Martin Keating, R.O.
James Lonergan, sergt., R.I.C.
John Fogarty, master, National school
Mary Murphy, mistress, National school
GROCERS AND PROVISION DEALERS.
E. Murphy, M. Whelan
MILLERS (Corn).
P. Kelly, H. Whitty
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, ETC.
Barlow, Walter, Ballylucas
Barry, John, Coolamain
Bolger, John, The Oyle
Brien, John, Coolakip
Brien, Joseph, Coolamane
Carroll, John, Coolnickbeg
Cleary, Thomas, Ballyroe
Clooney, Ellen, Ryane
Codd, Michael, Coolamain
Connors, Michael, Tinnehask
Cosgrave, William, Ballysilla
Crowley, Michael, Coolamain
Culleton, John, Ballinaslaney
Doran, Peter, Craanroe
Doyle, Elizabeth, Ballincarrig
Doyle, John, Ballyroe
Doyle, Mathew, Coolamain
Doyle, Nicholas, Coolamain
Furlong, Eliza, Jamestown
Furlong, John, Jamestown
Gordon, Thomas, Ballysillagh
Grannell, Patrick, Monavoduagh
Hayes, Thomas, Coolamain
Kehoe, Michael, Whitefort
Kehoe, Patrick, Jamestown
Kelly, E., The Mill, Edermine
Kelly, Mary, Jamestown
Keogh, Owen, Ballybanogue
Lambert, Patrick, Ballyrannell
Leary, Henry, Ballinaslaney
M‘Donald, John, Martingale
M‘Donald, Randall, Tinnehask
Maher, M. A. (J.P.), Ballinkeele
Murphy, Eliza, The Oyle
Murphy, John, Roperstown
Murphy, Walter, Knockduff
Murphy, William, Riverview
Nolan, Nicholas, Coolnaboy
Parker, George, Tincoon
Parker, James, Coolamain
Power, Sir John Talbot, Edermine
Quinlan, David, Coolamain
Roche, John, Ballylucas
Ryan, Kate, Ballyvake
Ryan, Patrick, Coolnaboy
Sinnott, James, Munroe
Stafford, James, Coolakip
Sutton, Catherine, Tomalane
Sutton, Francis, Tomalane
Whitty, H., Ballinaslaney
Whitty, William, Pouldarrig
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