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Census 1946 Volume 8 - Irish Language

Tables in PDF format

Tables 1 - 17 Irish Language

01. Number of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers in each province at each census from 1861 to 194602. Irish speakers as percentage of total persons in each Province at each Census from 1861 to 1946 (PDF 70KB)
03. Decrease in actual numbers of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers from census to census expressed as percentages (PDF 64KB)
04. Numbers and percentages of Irish speakers, 3 years of age and over in 1936 and 1946, with corresponding particulars for the Irish-speaking and partly Irish speaking areas in the Gaeltacht (PDF 64KB)
05. Irish speakers as percentage of total persons in each county and county borough at each census from 1871 to 1946 (PDF 66KB)
06. Numbers of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers in each county and county borough at each census from 1881 to 1946 (PDF 151KB)
07. Numbers and percentages of males and of females, 3 years of age and over, in each county and county borough distinguishing Gaeltacht and non-Gaeltacht areas (PDF 110KB)
08. Numbers of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers, 3 years of age and over, in the Gaeltacht in 1936 and in 1946, showing Irish speaking areas and partly Irish speaking areas(PDF 89KB)
09. Percentage inter-censal change - calculated from table 8(PDF 89KB)
10. Irish Speakers as percentages of total persons- calculated from table 8 (PDF 89KB)
11. Numbers and percentages of Irish speakers in each urban and rural district in 1946 with comparative percentage figures for 1936-persons 3 years of age and over only (PDF 816KB)
12. Number of Irish speakers, 3 years of age and over, classified according to age groups, in the Irish speaking and partly Irish speaking areas of the Gaeltacht in 1946, with comparative figures for 1936 (PDF 79KB)
13. Numbers of Irish speakers, 3 years of age and over, classified according to age groups, in the Gaeltacht in 1936 and 1946, distinguishing county of residence (PDF 79KB)
14. Numbers of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers, classified according to sex and by age groups, in each county and county borough - persons 3 years of age and over only (PDF 300KB)
15. Numbers of Irish speakers and non-Irish speakers, classified according to sex and by age groups, in the Irish-speaking and the partly-Irish speaking areas of the Gaeltacht. Persons 3 years of age and over only (PDF 176KB)
16. Males and females in each occupation classified according to knowledge of Irish (PDF 808KB)
17. Males and females in each agricultural occupation and in each occupational group in the Irish-speaking and the partly Irish-speaking areas of the Gaeltacht, classified according to County of residence (PDF 241KB)