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- March 1763 (Creation)
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118 pp.
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Dudley Ryves (d. c. 1793) was the agent and receiver to Francis Thomas, 3rd Earl of Kerry in the 1760s.
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Charles Frizell (1738-1812) was the son of Charles Frizell of county Wexford. He was a land surveyor and a leading member of his profession in eighteenth-century Ireland along with his brother, Richard Frizell.
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Richard Frizell (d. 1804) was the son of Charles Frizell of county Wexford. He was a land surveyor and a leading member of his profession in eighteenth-century Ireland along with his brother, Charles Frizell. In 1778, he became agent to the Earl of Ely of Rathfarnham, county Dublin.
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Small leather-bound volume of maps of Lixnaw, county Kerry and adjacent lands surveyed for Dudley Ryves by Charles Frizell Senior and Richard Frizell in March 1763. The book begins with an index of townlands, followed by coloured maps of each surveyed townland on a scale of 40 perches to an inch. Comments accompanying each map provide the names and sizes of individual fields within each townland, the overall quality and value of the land and recommendations for its use or for suitable improvements to increase quality or productivity. The pages have been numbered but the numbering runs sequentially on right-hand pages only and many of the numbered pages are blank.
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- English
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.r11v-s973. A microfilm copy of this item is available in the National Library of Ireland, ref. POS 8575. For a record of this copy, see https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000169728.