Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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264. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if records are available for the Census of Population undertaken in 1821 and 1831; and if there is work in progress to try to recover relevant data. [3607/22]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Most of the censuses of population undertaken in 1821 and 1831 were destroyed in a fire at the Public Record Office in 1922. A small number of records of Census 1821 and Census 1831 survive. These are available on the National Archives census website:

On the website, the records can be searched by year, surname, forename and various address fields.