Published in 1895, P.M. Egan’s “History, Guide And Directory Of County And City Of Waterford” offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich heritage, culture, and local insights of Waterford. The book serves as a valuable historical record, blending historical narratives, practical information, and an extensive directory.
This extract from ‘Landowners In Ireland 1876’ contains a list of all the landowners in Co. Waterford in 1876. Also included are their addresses, and the amount of land owned by them.
This article is part of a series of four articles on Lewis’s Topographical Survey.
Samuel Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary was first published in 1837. We have reproduced the City and County of Waterford section in its entirity on the site. The opinions, views and spellings are Mr. Lewis’s own and present an excellent picture of the County as seen by a gentleman in the 19th Century.
We intend to make the “Waterford Guide” simple, interesting, comprehensive, truthful? Yes, this latter idea should be the pleasantest course, gliding us over the cruxes and cross purposes of musty chronicles, and inciting us to give a “wide berth’, to quarrelling historians, while we dip into the brimful fount of knowledge available, respecting the County of Waterford.
