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- ↑ "Ireland, Valuation Records, 1824-1856". Ancestry.COM. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ↑ "The Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-37". titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ↑ "Statistical observations relative to the county of Kilkenny" Royal Dublin Society Dublin, Craisberry & Campbell, 1801
- Searchable database of townlands in Ireland derived from the Index to the 1851 Census of Ireland
- Searchable database of townlands from the OpenStreetMap project
