A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, comprising two volumes plus atlas published in 1837 by Samuel Lewis, was a similar work on a smaller scale, which undermined the case for a publicly funded memoir.
[4] The memoir text was published from 1990, in 40 volumes plus index, edited by Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast.
The number of volumes per county is: fourteen each for Londonderry and Antrim; four for Down; two each for Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone; one for Armagh; and one comprising parts of Cavan, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan and Sligo.
There are brief unpublished statistical remarks for parts of Cork, Galway, Laois, Longford, Mayo, Meath, Roscommon, and Tipperary.
The memoir text and sketches, as well as the name books and letters, are being published online, beginning in 2024, to mark the bicentenary of the establishment of the Irish Ordnance Survey.