Fethard a similar sized town had a similar tiny % of non-RC in #Census1926 but unlike Killenaule it had nearly 10% of its population Protestant in 1911, mostly Church of England, no doubt due to the cavalry barracks. #speirgorm
A census return in Irish.
Author Máirtín Ó Cadhain employed as a national school teacher. He was sacked shortly after for being in the IRA. As well as writing “Cré na Cille” he is supposedly the lad recruited Brendan Behan into the ‘Ra #speirghorm #Census1926
a table showing names and numbers. data reads as follows: 1 // Murphy // 129 2 // Dunne // 121 3 // Whelan // 60 4 // Maher // 60 5 // Dempsey // 46 6 // Douglas // 46 7 // Kelly // 46 8 // Byrne // 35 9 // Connolly // 31 10 // Malone // 30 11 // Ryan // 29 12 // Molloy // 28 13 // Shortall // 28 14 // Smith // 28 15 // Ward // 27 16 // O'Brien // 26 17 // Costello // 26 18 // Flanagan // 26 19 // Downey // 26 20 // Doyle // 26
for the crack I downloaded the list of all 2,964 residents of Portarlington (both sides of the river) from #Census1926. hours of fun to be had with this data. here's the top 20 surnames, which tbh probably hasn't changed much in 100 years
Square colourful abstract painting in a white frame with a palette knife lying beside it on the right
Another favourite was the 1911 entry about Patrick & his 3 sons, William, Patrick and Michael
Description about them here
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I can’t find Patrick senior or Michael in the 1926 census. Not sure if I’ve found the correct William & Patrick
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A census entry for a woman status "single (thank god)"
One might say she lived in a Free State
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screenshot of a handwritten census return from 1926. 'Daniel Mahony' is 13 years old and is listed as a Farm Labourer living at the home of Fr. Patrick Murphy, along with Honnora Donegan a 'servant maid'
Statue created by sculptor James MacCarthy, commemorating Danno O'Mahony in his home town of Ballydehob, County Cork.
went looking in the #Census1926 records for Cork's Danno O'Mahony, who was National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Champion in the 1930s. in 1926 he was a servant living at the the home of a Fr. Murphy in Coolagh Beg just outside of Ballydehob, where a statue to him was unveiled in 2001
The 1926 census was the first and only one where people indicated whether or not they were native Irish speakers. Unfortunately, there were so many obviously incorrect answers that it was decided not to publish any statistics on the topic.
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Missed a trick in not calling a #Census1926 bank holiday. I can’t be alone in having got just 4 hours sleep this weekend.
Found my great-grandmother's maiden name in the 1926 census. Have now located her family both in the 1911 and 1901 census.
In 1901, she had 6 brothers. In 1911, she had no brothers, and her father was a widower. The poor family, what happened to them in those 10yrs? #Census1926
This #census1926 stuff has me going down rabbit holes for my ancestors.
Its like a computer game, you could spend DAYS on end searching for connections and stuff.. i did am all nighter last night.
Still hopefully the next generation will appreciate my efforts
Think I might have found my grandfather on my father’s side in Roscommon, age 19, listed as a coal miner.
The two sides of my family: a sculptor, a dancer, and a photographic studio owner on one side, farmers and coal miners on the other side. Endlessly interesting.
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Brendan Behan, the writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, was aged 3 on the Irish Free State 1926 census. His family lived in one room at 14 Russell Street, near Mountjoy Square in a house owned by his grandmother, Christine English.
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Census 1926: The newly published Census of 1926 includes the extract for Kerry TD Austin Stack, who used his Irish name, Aibhistín de Staic and who was resident at Strand Road, Mount Merrion in Dublin with his wife Winifren (Úna) and a domestic servant at the time of the Census. #Census1926
It's a great disappointment not having any family living in the Republic of Ireland in 1926. I'm reduced to looking up other people's families. #Census1926
Those of you who suspect you have rebels in hiding in the #census1926 , have a look in Mountjoy!
#Census1926 something v small, but touching detail from my searches. I got to tell my father that his mother (who died when he was 5) was called Tessie by her family. He never knew that 💕
Census 1926: Return for Éamon de Valera and family who were resident at Serpentine Avenue, Dublin.
De Valera's occupation is listed as Teachta Dála even though he remained an abstentionist TD.
A month after the Census was taken, de Valera founded a new political party, Fianna Fáil
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The author William Butler Yeats, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, appears on the 1926 Irish Free State Census and is aged 60. nationalarchives.ie/collections/... #census1926 🇮🇪
Fascinating to see my grandfathers, both teenage boys in 1926, working on their parents’ farms. Very different lives to all their grandchildren who, nearly all have third level qualifications & none of us farm! #Census1926
One granny listed as only a month old and the other 7 years old. Loving having a rummage through #census1926 #speirgorm
The Census of 1926: my father-in-law Denis Patrick (Patie) O'Neill of Brookhill, Killorglin appears on the census return as a two-year-old. It's a fascinating resource and is very easy to search.
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Check it out here:
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Ireland today:
Trying to find one particular Murphy in Cork city really is like trying to find a needle in a haystack!! #census1926
My north Kerry ancestors: the 1926 Census records are a remarkable resource in helping us learn about the past and trace our family histories. This extract is from Ardfert where my grandfather, James Crowley - later of the Spa, Tralee - was born.
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Quick trawl of extended family 1926 Census records revealed many females between 14 and 21 worked at Jacob’s, Lemons, Williams and Woods as biscuit packers, sugar boilers, or jam packers.
Males same age group on other hand were market porters, labourers, or unemployed. #speirghorm #Census1926
Looking for someone who was in boarding school in 1926. Found the school (with some difficulty). Only nuns, teachers and domestics are listed. Is this the usual practice? #census1926
So excited to get stuck into #census1926 😍
But it's gonna have to wait till Monday, because I only have my phone till then, and this is a laptop activity 😅
My great grandfather fought in the Easter Rising - he was part of the ICA contingent that raised the Starry Plough on the roof of the Imperial Hotel on Sackville (O’Connell) Street.
Ten years later, aged 30, he still lived at home with his Ma and Da.
The more things change…
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