The fullest account of Burkitt's life and career as county surveyor is in Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 119–121.
Brendan O'Donoghue provides the most comprehensive account of Burkitt's life and career as a county surveyor in his book The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), which covers pages 119–121.