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What happened to the Irish Census of 1841 and 1851?
A census was taken in Ireland every 10 years from 1821 to 1911. The census records for 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 were destroyed by the government for a variety of reasons and at various times including during the First World War.
The remaining censuses from 1821 – 1851 were held in the Public Records Office in Dublin (Four Courts). As this was before the Republic of Ireland separated from the rest of Great Britain in 1922, this included records for what was later to become Northern Ireland.At the start of the Irish Civil War in 1922, a fire broke out in the Four Courts following an artillery attack. This fire destroyed many historic records including the remaining censuses from 1821-1851. Only a few scraps remained.
Ireland Genealogy offers a unique family history resource, where the otherwise lost census records for 1841 and 1851 can be rediscovered through the pension application records of the time.
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