Working on Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project (@virtualtreasury). I ❤️ censuses, Irish demographics, and enjoy running when not at the desk.
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Check out our new map (28 years of research). The 1766 Religious Census of Ireland is 260 today🥳🎁 Map shows parishes with surviving names or population numbers. Some parishes have a handful of names, others have 100s! virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seam… New user? virtualtreasury.ie/help
So, in non-historical-sources-recovery news, our Club, Kilcoole AC, won the O50 National Marathon Team Title ☘️ on Sunday, and we're over the moon about it🌛. 🎉🎉🎉🏆
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Great news for the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and great news for Irish History.
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Great news for the VRTI today. Read about it here: gov.ie/en/department-of-furt…
📢 VRTI - Ireland National Platform for digital history. Amazing news.
"The VRTI welcomes today’s announcement by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and James Lawless, Min. for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science". @MichealMartinTD
@lawlessj @GovIE @tcddublin
Censuses of Malahide, Portmarnock, and Kinsaley parishes, 1871, 1881 and 1891, going into the Virtual Treasury. Amazing - 3 census returns for 3 north-Dublin parishes have survived, and are now available to researchers. Also, links to images of the census volume. >4,000 names.
After 11 years of near misses (2nds and 3rds) I finally made it to the top step of a podium. National 10 mile AG champion, 2026 (58:31,chip time).🥇 Very proud. And our men's team (Kilcoole AC) won bronze in the team competition, too.🥉🎉
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A man who missed his daughter's wedding due to a "horrendous" joke about a bomb and a gun at Dublin Airport, has been spared jail and a criminal record
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104th anniversary of the destruction of the Public Record Office, so we released this cool new map of surviving 1766 census returns. kg.virtualtreasury.ie/collec….
📢 Census of Ireland, 1851
Partial reconstruction of the 1851 census of Thomas Street, Dublin, from Chart's index, with additions from Thom's directory, 1851. virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI…
Great weekend. Weather nice. Saturday - the 1926 census is released. 🧮✅ Sunday - 2nd in Connemara marathon.🏃♂️✅
All back to normal now.
Census of Ireland, 1766
Mrs White's house in Rosemary Lane (St Michael's parish), home to '50 Papists' in 1766. Catholic population of Rosemary Lane in 1766, 128. Location of Rosemary Lane (now gone) shown in image. Link to VRTI for St Michael's: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI…
Census of Ireland, 1926
Publication of data to townland level (available in Irish censuses, 1841-1911) 'could not be justified and would tend to needless complexity'. Townland figures available 'on application', instead.
Census of Ireland, 1911
Infirmity? Legally unfit to vote. Unenfranchised.
Religious profession? Militant suffragette.
A neat end to our 1766 Religious Census 260th anniv. celebration. Before & after pics showing the amazing work of Jessica Baldwin, Senior Conservator, National Archives (Newchapel, Co. Tipp). Cleaned and reunited. Great job 🥳👏 virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-… @NARIreland @TipperaryLive
Great new webpage by our wonderful colleagues at National Archives, Ireland, marking the 260th anniversary of the 1766 Religious Census. nationalarchives.ie/help-wit…🤩 See NAI's rare surviving 1766 originals 👇virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-… ...Click the Next button see the full series 🧐
Want to learn more about the 1766 religious census. Check out our hidden story, here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-st… Pull the slider on the map to see what was available, pre 1922, and what survives.
59 original 1766 returns survive, in @NARIreland . Magnificent sources, which can be seen on the Virtual Treasury. Here's NAI's post (new guide) to celebrate 260th anniversary of 1766 census: nationalarchives.ie/help-wit…
64,000 townlands in Ireland, but a complete list of names from 1766 (Ireland's great 18C census) and 1813 (Ireland's first 19C census) survives for only 1 townland - Inch townland, Inch civil parish, Co. Down. Many of the surnames survived between 1766 and 1813.
The 1766 religious census return for Inch townland, Co. Down. Amazingly the 1813 census for the townland survives too - the only townland in all Ireland with full coverage from Ireland's first 2 censuses. virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI…
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Names of the priests and friars recorded in the 1766 religious census available here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI…
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