The URL for the Irish Census is http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ The index links to the images of Household Return, Enumerators Abstract, House and Building Return, and Out-Offices and Farm-Steadings Return (all as PDF files). So lots more information than England/Wales. Wonderful resource - and as Dave says the National Archives of Ireland should be highly commended for this Debbie Dave wrote: > Hi folks, > Thousands of genealogists and other interested parties have been fighting > for many years for the early release of census information. I personally > can't see any reason why they should have to be locked away for 100 years. > I'm afraid it's the same problem with most public information whether it be > census records, parish records or BMD records, somebody has to transcribe > and make them available and usually at a cost to the researcher. > The Freecen, FreeBMD and FreeReg projects are doing a wonderful job in > making these available free of charge, but it is a slow job even with the > transcribers, checkers, validators and coordinators working hard to get them > online. > What bugs me is that the 1911 Census of Ireland is set to be online by mid > 2009 with Antrim, Down, Kerry and Dublin already available. > How much to search - FREE > How much to view each transcribed page - FEEE > How much to view an image - FREE > Maybe it is being made available at no charge because researching Irish > ancestors is difficult because of the destruction of the census records. I > would happily have paid for the valuable information I found on the site. > The National Archives of Ireland should be commended and and maybe give some > tips to our lot. > Cheers, > Dave Jassie - List Administrator > > > >