Missing Streets and Townlands 1901 census

Following on from a recent search for the 1901 census returns for Baldoyle county Dublin on the National Archives of Ireland website, and eventually tracing these on microfilms on the FamilySearch website. The films include not only Baldoyle town but also the four townlands in the civil parish of Baldoyle also missing from the NAI transcripts. See : 1901 Census of Ireland -missing Baldoyle

Further checks revealed the other townlands and streets included in this film also appear to be missing – further cross-checks are underway, but so far none of these can be located on the NAI site using a placename search, placename/ED browse, or by searching sample names and ages from the household forms. The Electoral Districts are Drumcondra, Drumcondra Rural, and Coolock, civil parishes Santry, Drumcondra, Glasnevin, St. George’s and Baldoyle.

A total of 51 locations (streets & townlands) are included – each has a set of enumerator forms (abstract and building) followed by the associated household forms. The film includes 1,014 images with a number of reference slides – the list below includes that starting image for each street or townland, this is the enumerator abstract form, the building return(s) and household forms follow this. The film viewer is at this link with the relevant census film selected (FamilySearch Account required)

Image no./Street or Townland / Electoral District

6 Lismore Terrace, Drumcondra
20 Lismore Villas (1-4), Drumcondra
28 Drumcondra Road, Drumcondra
30 Mabel N.[?], Drumcondra
45 Robert St.[?], Drumcondra
61 Robert Avenue, Drumcondra
76 Russell Avenue, Drumcondra
103 St. Alphonsus Avenue, Drumcondra
117 St. Alphonsus Convent, St. Alphonsus Rd., Drumcondra
123 St. Alphonsus Rd., Drumcondra
174 St. Anne’s Road, Drumcondra
196 St. Bridget’s Road Lower, Drumcondra
223 St. Bridget’s Road Upper, Drumcondra
253 St. Clements Road, Drumcondra
274 St. Columbas Road Lower, Drumcondra
290 St. Columbas Road Upper, Drumcondra
311 St. George’s Avenue, Drumcondra
322 St. George’s Burial Ground, Drumcondra
326 St. Joseph’s Avenue, Drumcondra
345 St. Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra
414 Tolka Cottages, Drumcondra
469 Whitworth Road, Drumcondra
483 Whitworth Place, Drumcondra
503 Whitworth Road[?], Drumcondra
557 Whitworth Terrace, Drumcondra
567 Baldoyle, Coolock
573 Grange
597 Maynetown
611 Stapolin
631 Baldoyle (town)
796 Clonmel, Drumcondra Rural
803 Hampstead North / Hampstead Hill, Drumcondra Rural
809 Hampstead South, Drumcondra Rural
825 Wad, Drumcondra Rural
834 Walnut Grove, Drumcondra Rural
837 Balbutcher, Drumcondra Rural (Santry Parish)
842 Balcurris, Drumcondra Rural
846 Ballymun, Drumcondra Rural
857 Ballystruan, Drumcondra Rural part of
864 Collinstown, Drumcondra Rural part of
875 Commons, Drumcondra Rural part of (Santry parish, Coolock barony)
881 Coultry, Drumcondra Rural part of
889 Dardistown, Drumcondra Rural part of
896 Huntstown, Drumcondra Rural part of
902 Rock, Drumcondra Rural part of
908 Santry, Drumcondra Rural part of
959 Santry Demesne, Drumcondra Rural part of
974 Sillogue, Drumcondra Rural part of
979 Stormanstown, Drumcondra Rural part of
994 Turnapin Great, Drumcondra Rural part of
1006 Turnapin Little, Drumcondra Rural part of6 Lismore Terrace, Drumcondra

Note – this is just one film, there are other streets and townlands missing, some of which were not filmed so not available for digitization. This particular example shows that in at least one case the relevant forms were filmed but not transcribed – or mis-indexed or not uploaded correctly to a database ?

The reference 832599 is noted at the start of this film, and date of 17th June 1970.

Sample ‘missing’ townland – Turnapin Little townland Santry (civil) parish

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1901 Census of Ireland – missing Baldoyle

A number of locations are missing from the 1901 Census of Ireland on The National Archives of Ireland website – for a variety of reasons. Some seem to have missed filming so were not available for digitation, some were damaged or lost, also a few sections filmed but not transcribed and indexed. Baldoyle town and civil parish County Dublin falls into a slightly different category…

Baldoyle civil parish contains four townlands; Baldoyle, Grange, Maynetown and Stapolin, with the town located in the townland of the same name. All of these are missing for 1901 on the National Archives of Ireland website.


On the 1911 returns these 5 locations are listed under part of Coolock electoral district, and cross checking an earlier source, Handran’s “Townlands in Poor Law Unions” 1885, confirms that these were in the same electoral district at that time – so likely Coolock in 1901. There’s no sign of any of these locations in either the street/townland browse or the search function for 1901 on the National Archives of Ireland website.

Luckily there’s another source for the 1901 census online, the FamilySearch website which has both transcripts and images. To access the transcripts collection select search / records from the menu and pick Ireland from the map – a list of collections is displayed including the 1901 census.

This collection shows a transcripts of the household returns and for images links to the National Archives of Ireland website. The only mention found of Baldoyle in these records is as place of birth.

The second relevant collection is the ‘images’ or microfilms, to access this option select search / images on the menu.

Entering Baldoyle as search term shows several options, selecting the first option (Baldoyle… Catholic Parish) and then clicking the search option shows Baldoyle 1901 census as a result and the link leads to the standard FamilySearch film viewer.

The film includes just over 1,000 images with enumerator and household forms. The film starts with Lismore Terrace, St. George’s Civil Parish, Drumcondra electoral district, see the enumerator abstract at image 6, house and building returns image 7, followed by the first of the household returns at image 8. The household forms follow in the same sequence as the enumerator building return(s), so this can be used as a search.

Baldoyle town starts at image 631 (direct link – FamilySearch account required )

Baldoyle townland at image 567

Maynestown townland at image 597

Stapolin townland at image 611

Direct link to the start of the film


Update 29th March 2023 – further checks have shown that many other streets/townlands on this film are also missing from the NAI Census website, currently reviewing these … 51 streets and townlands found to be missing, see : Missing Streets and Townlands 1901 census

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Revised notes on ITM coordinates to view old Churches etc

Updated the instructions for locating old churches and chapels on Historic maps using ITM coordinates on OSI/GeoHive

See : Using Coordinates on GeoHive/OSI

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Dublin City & County Civil Registration Districts (& Poor Law Unions)

Map showing approximate boundaries of Poor Law Unions & Civil Registration Districts (Superintendents Registrar’s Districts) for Dublin city and County overlaid on 1902 map from Thom’s directory, details derived from townland index data.

Dublin City and County Poor Law Unions & Civil Registration Districts (Click to view or download a large version)

Note : several of these districts extend into adjacent counties – Rathdown into North County Wicklow, Naas into County Kildare, Dunshaughlin into County Meath, and Celbridge into County Kildare plus a small  of part County Meath.

Original map shows Baronies and is available at this link.

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New Map – Dublin City and Environs 1880

New map added to website,  Dublin City and Environs Map 1880 from Thom’s Directory.

Original is a large map – size : 72cm  x 82cm (~ 28″ x 32″)


The maps covers Dublin city and parts of south and north county Dublin , from Glasnevin in the north, Islandbridge and Crumlin in the west, to Terenure and Milltown to the south. In some rural areas townland names and borders are shown.

This is a new high resolution scan, made up from 8 separate A3 images merged, and implemented in Zoomify to allow very detailed zoom, see example below – in some city areas the zoom goes slightly beyond the map print resolution.

The map data is very large, so can take a few seconds to catch up when zooming and panning

Original Map view of Ringsend bridge area

Updated zoomed in view of the same area – approx. 30cm wide on laptop screen

1880 map scans and merges

Hardware & Software used :

A3 flatbed Scanner A3 2400S Scanner with Twain Driver V3.05
Image Editors  – IrfanView 4.44 64 bit , PaintShop Pro 5
Photo Editor (with Panorama processing) – Affinity Photo 1.10.1
Zoomify Converter – 2.3.2

Note : a  lower resolution version of this map, split into two parts, North & South, has been available on the website for some time.

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