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We've introduced some great census records for Cork into VRTI CEN over past few weeks. Inchageelagh parish, 1821 and Kilworth area, 1851. Go to VirtualTreasury.ie, select Curated Collections, then Census Gleanings. Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Cork City Libraries Cork City and County Archives Service

You're very welcome Kirsten, and congratulations. 🎉 It's always great to hear positive feedback like this. It's nice to hear that some benefits are accruing. 😃

Census of Ireland, 1821. When the official report of the 1821 census appeared (1824), it contained full returns for 8 families in Clare, 'to show the nature and arrangement of the materials'. But for this, these details would have been lost. Clare Libraries virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CEN-…

Censuses of Ireland, 1813-51 Did you know? We spent many days trawling through about 80,000 pages in the Tension Groves collection, PRONI , searching for census extracts. We found thousands of names from censuses, and have made them all available via virtualtreasury.ie.

So, imagine you buy some 1926 census vols, in preparation for the release of Census of Ireland, 1926, and they end up being the personal working copies of Richard Mulcahy, elected SF, 1918, President of IRB; Minister for Defence; Gaeltacht; Education;Local Government. Would be 😎

Details from a 1861 census return (very rare - we know of only 2 surviving original 1861 census forms) for the St George family, Tyrone House, County Galway into the VRTI. Christopher St George was MP for Galway, 1847-52. See it here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CEN-… Galway County Council Archives

Census of Ireland, 1821 Good news for family historians of Leitrim. We've made the entire 1821 census of Carrigallen available via Virtual Treasury. Names, ages, religion, relnships of 7,000+ inhabitants of parish. Our first 100% recovery parish. And more coming. Leitrim County Council

Think you're busy? Spare a thought for PRO employees after OAP introduced. Here is a list of census searches, 29-31 Dec 1910 (A-J only). For each application the bundle of forms for a townland had to be searched, until form located. Details registered, copied, approved & posted.

Our census reports area in the VRTI is coming along nicely. It's an ongoing process, but all reports are/will be searchable, browsable. Nice...

So, today I was very pleased to get a peek inside the office from where Ireland's great census 🧮 (1821) was organised and managed. 😃😍

The townland index, prepared by the Census Office after the 1851 census, is an essential tool for local and family history. You can browse to it in the VRTI - VRTI CEN/Report/1851/7/11, or click this link to examine: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CEN-…. Searchable. I use it every day.

One of my fave entries in the 1821 census returns. The enumerator had returned the inhabitants of a house with the inhabs of house #6, in his fortnightly return, but having reflected on the arrangement he decided it constituted a separate household, upping the house count by 1.

First event at PRONI with Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to kick off Ireland and America 250th Anniversary Perspectives . Well done on stimulating debates especially with Ian, Sophie, Paddy, Joel and David . Great organising by Joel Herman from TCD and the PRONI staff. Thanks

Census of Ireland, 1861. 'Querulous old bachelors' and the census. 'Not one solitary case' of a woman refusing to give her age in 1851 census. Only refusals were from 'elderly gentlemen', who changed their minds when reminded of the £5 fine. WHAI #VoicesProjectTCD

This was fantastic. It was great to work with PRONI and many thanks to the speakers for taking part. Thanks also to Stephen Scarth for his help organizing.