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30 March – the United Kingdom Census shows that, as part of the legacy of the Great Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years. [1] [2] This is the first census to note use of the Irish language. [3] 1 August – Midland Great Western Railway extended from Mullingar to Galway. [3]
Ireland population change 1841-1851. The population of Ireland in 2021 was approximately seven million with 1,903,100 in Northern Ireland [1] and 5,123,536 in the Republic of Ireland. [2] In the 2022 census the population of the Republic of Ireland eclipsed five million for the first time since the 1851 census. [3]
Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. The website hosts billions of searchable records of census, directory and historical record information. [4] It originated in 1965 when a group of genealogists formed a group named "Title Research". The first internet website went live in 2003.
The census is of particular note in Ireland as it was taken shortly before the Great Famine (1845-1852), which resulted in over 1 million deaths and spurred decades of mass emigration. The total population of the island in 1841 was estimated to be just under 8.2 million, which remains the highest recorded population Ireland has ever had.
An 1851 census was taken in Ireland but most of the records have been destroyed; those that remain are held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (for those counties of Ireland which remain in the UK) or the National Archives of Ireland (for those counties now in the Republic of Ireland).
A rare surviving page from the 1851 Census of Ireland lists the household of Peter Magauran of Carrowmore. [30] In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are twenty-four families listed in the townland. [31] In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are twenty-one families listed in the townland. [32]
The valuation is a vital document in genealogical research, since in the absence of census records in Ireland before 1901 the valuation records in many ways can act as a substitute. Many of these records were also digitised and made readily available to the public online as part of the Ask about Ireland and Cultural Heritage Project initiative. [3]
During the decennial England and Wales Censuses of 1841 to 1901, the individual schedules returned from each household were transcribed and collated by the census enumerators into Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs). It is these CEBs that are used by researchers in the fields of social science, local and family history etc. Their contents changed ...