West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Waterford. You may be able to find further references to Waterford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Waterford city, parliamentary borough, seaport, seat of a diocese, and county of itself Bartholomew
WATERFORD a seaport, city and county of itself, and the seat of a diocese Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Waterford within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Arthur Young 11th to 19th October 1776: Tipperary and Waterford 21
Arthur Young Section 24: State of Ireland, brought down to the End of the Year 1779 4
John Wesley 1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy 3
Arthur Young Sections 10-12: Timber, Planting; Manures, Waste Lands; Cattle, Wool, Winter Food 2
Arthur Young Sections 13-16: Tythes, Church Lands; Absentees; Population; Public Works 2
Arthur Young Section 18: Corn Trade of Ireland, Bounty on Inland Carriage 2
Arthur Young Appendix, Itinerary 2
John Wesley 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions 1
John Wesley 1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Ballytruckle 0 1
Grange Lower 0 1
Kilculliheen 0 3
Killoteran 0 2
Kilbarry 0 2
Kill St Lawrence 0 2
Ballynakill 0 2
Ballynamona 0 1
Kilburne 0 2
Aglish 0 1
Killure 0 2
Licketstown 0 1
Kilcaragh 0 2
Kilronan in Middlethird 0 1
Kilmacow 0 2
Dunkitt 0 2
Rathpatrick 0 2
Monamintra 0 2
Portnascully 0 2
Gaulskill 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Waterford. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
WATERFORD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.