Dear friends of Beara, The All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) based at Maynooth University, has relaunched its Historical Mapping Atlas with a series of Census Maps. The maps provide visualisations of population data for all 32 counties across the island from 1841 to 2002. You can view the data for the Beara peninsula at http://airo.maynoothuniversity.ie/external-content/population-change-1841-20 02-cork These maps show numbers, not names. So you won't be able to see specific families vanish over time. But the numbers are all too vivid by themselves, showing the steep declines in population as the 19th century progressed into the 20th. Bill Gawne