Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 January 2022
264. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if records are available for the Census of Population undertaken in 1821 and 1831; and if there is work in progress to try to recover relevant data. [3607/22]
View answerMost of the censuses of population undertaken in 1821 and 1831 were destroyed in a fire at the Public Record Office in 1922. A small number of records of Census 1821 and Census 1831 survive. These are available on the National Archives census website:
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/pre1901.html
On the website, the records can be searched by year, surname, forename and various address fields.
