📢 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-CE...

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-CE...

Census of Ireland, 1911 Infirmity? Legally unfit to vote. Unenfranchised. Religious profession? Militant suffragette.

Continuing with medieval women, money, property and politics for #IWD2026 here is a taster of @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social research. Elizabeth's full journal article is due out later this year. Rediscovering the Women of the Medieval Irish Exchequer www.virtualtreasury.ie/archive-feve...

Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past. For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️ Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

More census, 1841 this time.

#IWD2026 June1666 'E. Ormond' sends a letter to London. virtualtreasury.ie/item/TNA-SP-... Elite women like Elizabeth Butler, duchess of Ormond are easier to spot in the archive. The tone of her letter to Secretary of State Arlington shows her social standing. 👀 ALT

Happy 260th Birthday to Ireland's first census! 🎂 Amazing coverage back in 1766 🙂 A tragic loss in 1922 🔥😩 Now available - over 50,000 recovered names! 📜📚5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🥳 www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1... 📢 More detailed Survivors map coming today! 🔎

A detailed 1766 census for in Inch, Co. Down. Amazingly the 1813 census for Inch survives too! The only townland in all Ireland with names from both. www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PRONI-T... virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/c... 👀 ALT for details

Great new webpage by our wonderful colleagues at National Archives, Ireland, marking the anniversary of the 1766 Religious Census. nationalarchives.ie/help-with-re... 🤩 See NAI's rare surviving 1766 originals 👇 virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... Click through to see the full series 🧐 See ALT text.

A neat end to our 1766 Religious Census anniversary + linking to #IWD2026 😊 Before + after pics showing the amazing work of Jessica Baldwin, Senior Conservator, National Archives Ireland. Damaged in 1922. Cleaned, flattened + reunited 🥳👏 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... 👀 the story in ALT

Want to learn more about the 1766 religious census. Check out our hidden story, here: www.virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Pull the slider on the map to see what was available, pre 1922, and what survives.

59 original 1766 returns survive, in National Archives, Ireland. Magnificent sources, which can be seen on the Virtual Treasury. Here's NAI's new guide, published to celebrate 260th anniversary of 1766 census: nationalarchives.ie/help-with-re...

Names of the priests and friars recorded in the 1766 religious census available here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social

1766 religious census of Ireland is 260 years old today (5 March). Have a look at our brand new map of surviving details from 'Ireland's first census'. 😃

In 2006 I told the late (great) Prof. Ray Gillespie that I wanted to publish every surviving scrap from the 1766 religious census, by 2016. I missed the 🎯by 10 yrs, but 😃 to report that on the 260th anniv. it's done. Everything, >50k names & population details, now online. @maynoothuniversity.ie

5 March 1766, House of Lords. Resolved: 'Parish ministers ... to return a list of the several families in their parishes ... distinguishing which are Protestants and which are Papists. As also, a list of the several reputed Popish priests and friars'. 'Ireland's first census', 260 y.o. today. 🎂📷 🎁

📢 The lost 1766 Religious Census is 260 y.o. 🎂🎉 Watch out for our new 'Survivors' map on 5 March 👀 Originals, transcripts, names and numbers🧐🔎 @gensocireland.bsky.social @cbgenealogy.ie @igrs1936.bsky.social @ifhs.bsky.social @eshsi.bsky.social @kiaragregory.bsky.social @alliethinks.bsky.social

My @historicaljnl.bsky.social article has been published open access alongside great articles by @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, and others I couldn't locate here, in the most recent journal issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wolfe Tone on Paine: I have been laterly introduced to the famous Thomas Paine and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain and, for my part, I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty ... and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man.

1766 religious census of Boho parish, Co. Fermanagh, by Revd John White. ‘One Papist is generally a herdsman for a whole townland. There is not a Papist in the parish anyway considerable, either in circumstances, or mental capacity, all poor, low, illiterate people’.

1766 Killeeshill, Co. Tyrone Original 1766 census return on Dissenters (Presbyterians): 'spawn of Scottish Covanenters...most virulent, and furious persecutors of the Established clergy during the late tumults in the north of Ireland.' virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... @presoutlook.bsky.social

Ballymore parish, Co. Armagh A rare surviving original census return! 🤩 But - instead of listing 901 names Rev. Sacheverell only sent 615 Protestant families 206 Popish (Catholic) families '2 reputed Popish priests' 😩 virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... 👀 ALT

Prudence Riddle, Elizabeth Hagan, Grace Lascells, Deborah Milligan. Most 1766 census records for Co. Down were lost in 1922, but this transcript for Castlewellan records some names of adult women, and not just 'elite' women. A rarity in the census returns! virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE.... 👀 ALT

Long thought lost this transcript of the 1766 census for Inchigeelagh Co. Cork was generously made available though the VRTI by Cumann Staire Uíbh Laoire/Ballingeary and Inchigeelagh Historical Society. virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE.... @johncreedon.bsky.social @corkbeo.bsky.social 👀 ALT

1766 census return, Inchigeelagh, County Cork, from our friends in Cumann Staire Uíbh Laoire/Ballingeary and Inchigeelagh Historical Society. It's a complete transcript and (my view) a very accurate census return.

Kilmegan parish, Co Down - partial 1766 census return. The original return was probably one of the finest returns issued. #census

VRTI will be posting some information about the 1766 religious census returns over the next few days (260th 🎂 approaching). Keep an 👁️out. We'll be revealing some hidden gems 💎 among the surviving returns.

Thumb/finger print on PRONI T808/15122. Most likely a print of Tenison Groves, who transcribed thousands of names from the 1766 religious census, and the 1821-1851 censuses of Ireland. One of my heroes...

After 30 years of researching the 1766 census of Ireland, my latest find (Dublin Diocesan Archives) is - by happy coincidence - a transcript for my home parish, Delgany. Alas no names, but this is the full transcript of the destroyed return. Click to view: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

Better late than never. Census names in VRTI for end January, 2026 - a whopping 139,102, incl. >50,000 names from 1766 Religious Census of Ireland. Cork leads the way with 16k+ names from 1766 and 1821-1851. Next big mark is 150,000k Click for sample: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

Census of Ireland, 1766. Great census of Athassel, Co. Tipp. Gives names, details on family, occupations. My fave is entry number 435, John Birrane, 'a beggar man in cabin on the road'. Probably the only record for Birrane. virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... @tipperarylibraries.bsky.social

Quick note that the # of names from Irish censuses, 1766-1891, has leaped forward over the past few weeks, and now stands at a whopping 115,911. And the good news is that we have 1,000s more names to come in over the first half of 2026. Here's a cracker: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

Censuses of Ireland, 1766-1891. At end Nov. our total for names in VRTI CEN from 1766 religious census, 1798 census of Dublin City and censuses of Ireland 1813-1891 hit 98,000. On Tuesday we'll give the end Dec. total. Will we hit 100k? Tune in Tuesday for update. Any guesses?

Maps showing 1766 religious census returns received at House of Lords, in response to their 15 March call for census details, and the surviving details from the census. 83% national coverage in 1766; 63% survival of details, in some form. Significant losses. Significant recovery.

Censuses of Ireland, update. We've updated our 1766 survivors map to reflect some recent discoveries, including numerical details for Nenagh Union (Tipperary) and Tacumshin Union (Wexford), and expansion within Kilkenny. Coverage (survivors) now at 60.32% of the island.

Me when I find a new census transcript.

9 years to finish the big 6. Berlin, 2016, 2:44:54 (fastest). London, 2017, 2:48:34. Boston, 2018, 2:56:59 (coldest). Tokyo, 2019, 2:45:04. Chicago, 2024, 2:58:34 (slowest). New York, 2025, 2:49:48 (best). The big 6, done and dusted, and all sub-3s. 😃 #tired #runner #marathon

Was a fantastic first day at ’Ireland and the American Revolution’ capped off by a brilliant keynote address by Prof. Eliga Gould. Looking forward to day two.

Great to see a good turnout at @tcdunit18.bsky.social for @cwallacedublin.bsky.social's talk on Wed 17th titled "30 June 1922 – Dublin’s biggest explosion? Recovering the lost Public Record Office of Ireland”. @historytcd.bsky.social

So, Andrew's wife is from Inchigeelagh. Click here to check out the 1766 religious census for the parish (our most recent 1766 discovery): virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE...

Census of Ireland, 1861 The 1861 census returns were never in PRO/never open to the public. Not knowing this, Samuel Gilmore wrote to PRO seeking info from 1861 census, providing a mock-up for the Patterson household, Lisburn. Click link: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CE... @narireland.bsky.social

Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

Beautiful lazy-beds at The Deserted Village, Achill. The lazy-bed agricultural practice was anything but lazy.

Depraved. Bomb a hospital. Then bomb the rescue workers. I have no words for this level of savagery, inhumanity and cruelty. It's utterly evil.

Great crowds at yesterday's Really Useful Family History Show in PRONI, organised by @nifhs.bsky.social and sponsored by @federationfhs.bsky.social. Thanks to all who joined! @briangurrin.bsky.social @cwallacedublin.bsky.social

Oasis who? Census of Monivea, 1891 sold out again. Well done, Monivea Heritage Association. 👏👏

Monivea census, 1891, back in print again. Follow Monivea Heritage Association on Facebook, or contact them, to get your copy.

Our colleague @briangurrin.bsky.social was in Monivea last week for the launch of the 1891 census of Monivea locality. Read more about this fascinating publication on our news page: virtualtreasury.ie/news/monivea...