Gallery – To be decided

CarlowKilkenny

CavanMonaghan

Clare

CorkEast

CorkNorthCentral

CorkSouthCentral

Donegal

DublinBayNorth

DublinBaySouth

DublinFingal

DublinMidWest

DublinSouthCentral

DublinSouthWest

DublinWest

GalwayWest

Kerry

KildareNorth

LimerickCity

LongfordWestmeath

Louth

Mayo

SligoLeitrim

Tipperary

Waterford

Wexford

Wicklow

RoscommonGalway

Offaly

MeathWest

MeathEast

LimerickCounty

Laois

KildareSouth

GalwayEast

DunLaoighaire

DublinRathdown

DublinNorthWest

DublinCentral

CorkSouthWest

CorkNorthWest

All the counts in one place

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May 6, 2026
The enumerator was the Principal Lighthouse Keeper (John M Johnson) who was originally from Arklow but on census night was in Rockisland.This is the first record I have found (so far) where the enumerator wasn't a guard. So that was a bit of a quirk!Considering the planning that goes into conducting a modern census, the logistics of running one so quickly after a war of independence followed by a civil war is interesting to me. (2/2)
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May 6, 2026
Over the weekend, in the continued search to try to look for very localised names, I was looking at Heneghan's in the 1926 census living outside of Connaught - to see if any were born outside of Connaught. Only one family (widow & daughters fit that description). But I also found that the head of household of Fastnet Lighthouse was a Patrick Heneghan from Blacksod.#1926Census #1926IrelandCensus (1/2)
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May 1, 2026
Most Irish weather forecast (on my phone, not the official Met Éireann forecast)"Rain possible today"
(no title)
April 20, 2026
I wonder what the most geographically concentrated surname in the #1926Census was (excluding super rare names essentially representing one family)?Let's put a minimum of 200 people in the country with the same surname (which excludes Tohers).One of my other 3 grandparents surnames: over 98% in one county, the next most popular county only had 2 with the surname!In that county they were spread between 16 DEDs, but over 20% were in the one DED, and almost 60% were spread between just 4 DEDs.
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April 18, 2026
If you know siblings names that is really helpful for confirming correct households with v common names.Knowing the probable DED is really helpful for then narrowing it down.I haven't taken more than 2 minutes to find a record yet - but I did spend weeks digitising (and finding additional supporting evidence of) family records that my nan created and collated so was more familiar with the systems.She would have loved to get access to these records and see her name in them!(2/2)