Reconstructed census of Ireland

Erica Howton C

7/24/2022 at 11:54 PM

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/

Welcome to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland — an all-island and international legacy for the Decade of Centenaries.

The Treasury re-imagines and reconstructs through digital technologies the Public Record Office of Ireland, a magnificent archive destroyed on June 30th, 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War.

This is an open-access resource, freely and permanently available online to all those interested in Ireland’s deep history at home and abroad. Together with our partners across Ireland and around the world, we are democratizing access to invaluable records and illuminating seven centuries of Irish history.

Erica Howton C

7/24/2022 at 11:55 PM

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census

The religious census of 1766 is one of the richest sources available to the historical and genealogical researcher for the period prior to the commencement of the statutory census series in 1813. Although most of the original 1766 religious census returns were destroyed in 1922, 59 original items from the 1766 census survived the fire. In addition, transcripts, extracts, and parish numerical abstracts have survived for many parts of the island. Overall, more than 50,000 individual names survive from these scattered sources, these are brought together here for the first time.

Karl David Wright PRO

7/25/2022 at 12:03 AM

I'm still trying to figure out how to effectively search this wealth of material. If I get the hang of it I'll let you know.

Reconstructed census of Ireland

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