Office_of_the_Surveyor-General_for_Ireland

Surveyor General of Ireland

Surveyor General of Ireland

Royal official in the 16th to 18th centuries in Ireland

The office of Surveyor General of Ireland was an appointed officer under the Dublin Castle administration of Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries.[1] The Surveyor General was typically responsible for the surveying, design and construction of civic works, and was often involved in overseeing the construction of military barracks and public buildings.[2] Though Surveyors General were officially appointed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, it was not unknown for the post to be "sold" by one holder to the next. For example, Arthur Jones-Nevill succeeded Arthur Dobbs in 1743, having paid £3,300 to secure the position. And despite being dismissed for maladministration, Nevill was allowed to sell the post on to Thomas Eyre in 1752.[nb 1] Eyre was the last holder of the office, which was abolished in 1763.[4]

List of Surveyors General of Ireland

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Footnotes

  1. [N 1]
    McParland notes "Such sums were not fees or bribes to officials for the appointments; instead they represented the value of the post when it was viewed as the personal property of the holder of the patent".[3] Thus the statement of May 1743 in TCD Clements MS 1741 that 'Dobbs has disposed his employment to one Mr Jones' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44)[original research?]
  2. [N 2]
    First or only date is date of appointment

References

Sources

  • McParland, Edward (1995). "The Office of the Surveyor General in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century". Architectural History. 38. SAHGB: 91–101. doi:10.2307/1568623. ISSN 0066-622X. JSTOR 1568623. S2CID 195025920.

Citations

  1. [1]
    McParland 1995
  2. [2]
    Office of Public Works - About - History
  3. [3]
    McParland 1995, p. 97
  4. [4]
    Dictionary of Irish Architects - Thomas Eyre
  5. [5]
    Hardinge, W. H.; Ridgeway, Thomas (1861–64). "On Mapped Surveys of Ireland". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 8: 39–55: 44. JSTOR 20488800. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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    Ball, Francis Elrington (1903). "Merrion and its Castle". A History of the County Dublin: The People, Parishes and Antiquities from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. Part 2. Dublin: Alex. Thom. p. 10. Retrieved 10 September 2016. his brother, Michael Fitzwilliam, of Donore, in the County Meath, Surveyor–General of the Crown lands
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    Collins, Arthur; Brydges, Sir Egerton (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son. pp. 44–45. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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    Hardinge, W. H. (1873). "On Manuscript Mapped and Other Townland Surveys in Ireland of a Public Character, Embracing the Gross, Civil, and Down Surveys, from 1640 to 1688". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 24, Antiquities: 3–118: 9. JSTOR 30079258. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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    Hull, Charles Henry. The Economics Writings of Sir William Petty Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality. CUP Archive. p. xxiv.
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    "Sir William Robinson (1645-1712)". Architects & Historical Figures. Archiseek.com. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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    Carroll, Patrick (2 October 2006). "Engineering the Data State: Scopes, Meters, and Graphs". Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation. University of California Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780520932807. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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    Molyneux, Capel; Molyneux, William (1820). Phillipps, Thomas (ed.). An account of the family and descendants of Sir T. Molyneux, Kt, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland. Evesham: Printed by J. Agg. p. 62. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  13. [13]
    Archiseek.com - Thomas Burgh (1670-1730)
  14. [14]
    Dictionary of Irish Architects - Edward Lovett Pearce
  15. [15]
    Dictionary of Irish Architects - Arthur Dobbs
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