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 ...

An important new tool in tracing your Irish family history has been released in Ireland. The National Library has released a searchable online database for the April 1911 family census for the entire ...

If you were to be part of the wealthy elite more than 100 years ago, Co Meath was the place to live, according to a new analysis. Data collated by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) from the 1911 ...

It was a tale of two countries in Ireland at the start of the last century, with newly digitised data drawn from the 1911 census highlighting the best of times in the east and the very worst for many ...

FINDING your Wexford ancestors just got easier with the release of 1911 census records. Families with links to Wexford can now search online for their ancestors in the 1911 census records. The records ...

Irish "roots" research has got a major boost with the latest online census from 1911. The census, with a search facility free of charge, is available on the National Archives website. The 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 ...

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 ...