Ireland's National Mapping Agency has now made the Ordinance Survey from the 1830's available online. I have seen these for sale through http://www.pasthomes.com/ - I was never sure of what one would get and how one would figure out what map to order.
This new service has a search engine - by county and townland. If you know your family's townland you will get one step closer with this. I haven't quite figured out the printing or panning aspects, but it is neat to see a townland and all the little buildings detailed on it. There is a fee.
https://ecomextra.osiemaps.ie/Historic/login/login.asp
Good luck.
Detailed 1830's townland maps now available online
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Ellen Brewin
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Ellen Brewin
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Unfortunately, there were no names of families. But there are some interesting details - such as "forts" which I think they mean the old megalithic forts, cairns and tombs etc. You can see how close or how spread out people were in a townland and also see a little better how the townlands relate to each other - especially townlands that are close to the border of a parish.
These maps are fascinating, I bought two from the commercial site showing the townlands of my forebears. If you have family data from the Griffiths Valuation and can view the maps showing that relate to Griffiths you would be able to identify houses to individuals.
Griffiths was based on these first OS maps and were one of the reasons for them being drawn up. The forts are the fairy forts of yore - dwellings that were in use from about 500 to 1000 AD.
Most of them are still there as much superstition surounded (and still does) these places, they are a good guide when used against modern maps as they provide a fixed reference to identify later features such as roads etc.
Griffiths was based on these first OS maps and were one of the reasons for them being drawn up. The forts are the fairy forts of yore - dwellings that were in use from about 500 to 1000 AD.
Most of them are still there as much superstition surounded (and still does) these places, they are a good guide when used against modern maps as they provide a fixed reference to identify later features such as roads etc.
Brian Barry
It's a bit of a rip off it you join Origins network you can search your ancestor in the Griffith valuation, then view the map and print it off yourself
http://www.originsnetwork.com/
http://www.originsnetwork.com/