The following nominal list is transcribed from a primary source:

"A List of Registered Freeholders of the County of Louth, 1822, Consisting of the Baronies of Ardee, Ferrard, Louth, Upper and Lower Dundalk", printed in Dundalk by James Parks in 1822 and presently in the County Louth Reference Library, Dundalk. Other Freeholder lists are also available there, as well as in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin.

The following information has been transcribed:

• Name of Freeholder
• Place of Abode
• Situation of Freehold
• Landlords' Name
• Place and Date of Registry
• Barony.

The following information has NOT been included from the original material:

Value
Names of Life or Lives, or other Tenure


Value:
The vast majority of these freeholds had a value of 40 shillings. As a rule of thumb, this value can be assumed in the following list, except where no landlord is specified, in which case a value of 10 pounds and upwards applies. Please note that this is a very general rule of thumb only.

Freeholders were allowed to vote in local elections. The Relief Act enabling Roman Catholics to enter Parialment and hold higher offices of state (better known as Catholic Emancipation) was passed on 13 April 1829. On the same day an Act raising the county franchises from 40 shillings to 10 pounds freehold was enacted, a "mischief-bill" in the words of Daniel O'Connell. Therefore the vast majority of people on this list were disenfranchised from 1829.

Name of Life or Lives, or other Tenure:
The condition under which the freehold is granted (the duration of the freehold), normally the life of the freeholder, or a relative, or the landlord, or a combination of all or any of those. Sometimes a member of the British royalty is mentioned, or a foreign king or prince is specified, or a member of the clergy.