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Longford Census Returns & Substitutes

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  • 1641: Book of Survey and Distribution. NLI Ms 965
  • 1659: Pender's 'Census'.
  • 1726-7: Protestant householders, Abbeylara, Abbeyshrule, Ardagh, Clonbroney, Clongesh, Kilcommock, Killashee, Rathreagh, Shrule, Taghshiny (Longford); Rathsapick, Russagh (Westmeath). List compiled for the distribution of religious books. NAI M1502
  • 1729: Presbyterian exodus from Co. Longford. Breifny, 1977-8
  • 1740: Protestants, Shrule & Rathreagh (Longford); Rathaspick (Westmeath) RCB Library GS 2/7/3/25
  • 1747-1806: Freeholders. Registration book. NAI M 2745
  • 1790: Freeholders c. 1790 NAI M 2486 8. Also NLI Pos. 1897.
  • 1795-1862: Charlton Marriage Certificates. NAI M2800. Indexed in Accessions Vol. 37.
  • 1796: Spinning-Wheel Premium List.
  • 1800-1835: Freeholders. GO 444. Also LDS 100181
  • 1823-38: Tithe Books .
  • 1828-1836: Freeholders certificates. NAI M.2781
  • 1854: Griffith's Valuation . Indexed in Co. Longford Survivors of the Great Famine, D. Leahy, Longford, 1996
  • 1901: Census. Full index in Co. Longford and its People, D. Leahy, Dublin, Flyleaf Press, 1990.
  • 1911: Census.