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The Down Survey is a mapped record of landownership and selected items of settlement and topography. The survey was basically concerned with lands that were confiscated after the Cromwellian victory. The most important difference between the Civil and Down Surveys is that the Civil Survey areas were estimated by jurors, whereas the Down Survey lands were measured by trained surveyors. | The Down Survey is a mapped record of landownership and selected items of settlement and topography. The survey was basically concerned with lands that were confiscated after the Cromwellian victory. The most important difference between the Civil and Down Surveys is that the Civil Survey areas were estimated by jurors, whereas the Down Survey lands were measured by trained surveyors. | ||
Look in the Family History Library Catalog under the following heading: | |||
IRELAND, [NAME OF COUNTY], LAND AND PROPERTY | |||
An example for the County of Armagh is: | |||
*Armagh County Museum. ''A Distribution of Forfeited Lands, Returned by Down Survey: Shewing whose they were in anno 1641 and to whom they are now set out: County Armagh. ''Unpublished typescript no. M9. FHL microfilm 1,279,356, item 10. | |||
=== Burgess Rolls === | === Burgess Rolls === | ||