The valuation office has the task of valuing commercial property within the Country for the purpose of charging rates. The office has records going back to 1850 showing the owner and occupier of land in a given area. Records covering the 26 counties are divided by County, Rural districts and finally Townlands.

The Records have the following information:

Townland Address,
Occupier name, 
Description of property, 
Acreage of holding, 
Rateable value and 
Reference to the position on a Valuation map


If you know the exact address of an Ancestor you may able able to trace back and find that the property was held in that family for some generations. You would then be able to find the Full name 
of the occupier, a valuable piece of Genealogical information.

If you don't know the exact address, but at least know a townland, then you can search that area for a particular period in the hope of finding your Ancestor.


The office holds an Archive of old maps that will let you find the exact location of property. 



Archive Research



Each volume/map consulted (for research periods of less than 1 hour)
£3.00 , €3.81 , US$4.74

Research per hour
£12.00, €15.24, US$18.96

(Periods greater than 1 hour to be charged at proportionate hourly rate)

Address

Valuation Office Ireland
6 Ely Place, Dublin 2

Tel: +353-1-817 1000 
Fax: +353-1-817 1180
Locall: 1-890-304-444

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 

9.30 a.m to 12.30 p.m

2.00 p.m to 4.30 p.m

To see where this office is on a Map of Dublin click  here or to go directly to it's own Web site click  here .