What census years are available in Ireland online?
The returns for 1901 and 1911 are held in the National Archives and are available to view online at the National Archives website.
What are Irish townlands?
A townland (Irish: baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: toonlann) is a small geographical division of land used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering 100–500 acres (40–202 ha). The townland system is of Gaelic origin, pre-dating the Norman invasion, and most have names of Irish origin.
What happened to the Irish census records?
The 1861 and 1871 census returns were deliberately destroyed as authorised by the Irish Government to protect confidentiality and to ensure that “returns should not be used for the gratification of curiosity”.
What does DED mean in Irish census?
District Electoral Division
The returns are arranged by townland for rural areas and by street in cities, and it is necessary to know the townland or street where a person lived and its corresponding District Electoral Division (DED) in order to find the record of a particular person of interest.
What does my townland mean?
What does townland mean in Ireland?
The townland is the smallest territorial division of civil administration. Townlands can provide a traceable address to the present day for our ancestors. Dating from medieval times or earlier, townlands were used to identify a small area of land at a local level.
What is a placename in Ireland?
The vast majority of placenames in Ireland are anglicisations of Irish language names; that is, adaptations of the Irish names to English phonology and spelling. However, some names come directly from the English language, and a handful come from Old Norse and Scots.
What is ded in Irish census?
The 1901 and 1911 censuses were organised by District Electoral Division (DED), which can make it difficult to limit the search to a particular parish or district. However, you can browse the area.