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
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	3
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 Hist. Gazetteer