The National Archives of Ireland digitized 1911 Irish census has added five more counties to its collection. Joining Antrim, Down, Dublin and Kerry are Cork, Donegal, Galway, Offaly and Wexford. The ...

Elsewhere on this site, Declan O'Kelly reports that an additional five counties have been added to the online database of the 1911 Census. Census data from nine counties is now available online: ...

Inishcaltra South in Co Clare and Lullymore in Co Kildare had the highest literacy rates in Ireland in 1911 with 100 per cent, it has emerged. The Co Down town of Donaghadee was not far behind with a ...

The 1911 Census was taken on April 2 of that year. Ireland is unusual among English-speaking census-taking countries in that our original household manuscript returns survive. These are the forms ...

It will not provide much consolation to those caught up in Dublin’s housing crisis, but the situation was even worse more than a century ago. Data from the 1911 Census, which has been released online ...

Data on family size by year of marriage, age at marriage, and duration of marriage, from the 1911 Fertility Census, are compared between Scotland, England and Wales, Irish county boroughs, and the ...