Latest news from cavantownlands.com:
We have just uploaded a major new dataset on https://cavantownlands.com/census-of-1821/Census of 1821 – Cavan Townlands. This is the earliest census of Cavan to be completed and c.80,000 individual records listing entire families are available to search. Cavan researchers are fortunate that a significant proportion of the 1821 census has survived.
This contains 80,000 complete individual records for 17 of the 36
parishes of County Cavan which have survived. We have re-indexed the
listings from the National Archives website which we found to contain
many transcription as well as townland indexation errors. We believe we
have improved the townland search facility from about 25% to nearly 95%
by updating the old and misspelt townland names to their correct current
classification (Logainm).
You can now search the census records by filtering parish, townland,
surname, first name, occupation etc. The search engine supports
predictive text which makes searching easier. (Note we have not
attempted to update the name transcriptions which, unfortunately, are
not very reliable in many instances. We recommend that any records
encountered be verified by cross checking with the original photographed
records which can be viewed on the NAI site.)
This is one of the very few counties in Ireland for which census records
have survived from this era and represent a major historical resource
for any Cavan genealogical or historical research.