IN 1926, the Carlow County Home recorded in the census that it had 116 ‘inmates’, but who were those people and what can their presence in the ‘county home’ tell us about life in Carlow 100 years ago?In 1926, a ‘county home’ was a workhouse in all ...

The 1926 individual census returns have been made searchable online for the first time.

First names, surnames, counties, townlands/streets, and District Electoral Divisions can be used to search through the records.