1766 Religious Census. Some West Cork Parishes. 1831 Census Parish of Durrus

https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRIV-M-4921

NAI PRIV/M/4921 is a facsimile copy of a volume of Cork material which includes:abstract 1766 religious census material (to parish level) for all parishes in Cork and Ross diocese1764-5 hearth-tax religious census material for some Cork parishes.

The 5 March 1766 resolution of the House of Lords instructing that a religious census be taken required parish ministers to return lists of the heads of households only. However, the instruction from the Cork and Ross Diocese to its parish ministers to conduct a census must have included a specification that population numbers were also to be returned as nearly all parishes in Cork and Ross provided population data alongside counts of the number of households. Cork and Ross was the only diocese to return both population and household counts as a general rule.

The abstract 1766 population and household numbers in this volume reflect the diocesan summary for Cork and Ross diocese, which was Parliamentary Return number 787 in the Parliamentary Return collection in the Public Record Office.

View PROI PARL 88/30/5/77/2/787 to see additional information concerning this diocesan summary.

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