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National Archives of Ireland
What survived 1922 and what was rebuilt since — the 1901 and 1911 censuses in full and free, Tithe Applotment books, wills and the census fragments recovered from other collections.
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The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1534–1801 Kingdom of Ireland, under the English crown
- 1801–1864 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1864–1922 United Kingdom — civil registration
- 1922–2026 Irish Free State and Republic in the south; Northern Ireland in the six counties — THE TRAP. On 30 June 1922 the Public Record Office in the Four Courts burned with almost every Irish census before 1901, most Church of Ireland registers deposited there, and the wills. Researchers are still told to «look for the census» — there is no census to look for. What survives is what was never sent in: the Catholic parish registers, PRONI's copies in the north, Griffith's Valuation, and the Tithe Applotment books. Start there, not with the census.
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