1901 and 1911 Census - Copy of M1 Forms

Movick:

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Copies of all census forms can be found at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

The B1 form lists the houses in the townland, number of rooms, front, windows, class of house, number of people in the house on census day, head of household, owner of property. If there were more than 17 families, multiple B1 pages would be prepared

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001030360/

The B2 form lists the number of out building on the properties such as stables, piggerys, cow houses, etc

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001030362/

I'm not familiar with an M1 form do you mean the N form? The N form is the summary page of a census report prepared by an RIC constable listing the townland, civil parish, barony, county, name of constable, his barrack location, etc.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001030359/

Let me know what questions you have.

Roger McDonnell

 

The M1 form was the enumerator’s private map. He used it to mark each house visited, together with the number allocated eg "house 13" etc. As far as I am aware these maps have not survived. See:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,522123.0.html

 

Movick,

As I understand it, it’s not that they haven’t been published. I don’t think they still exist. They were simply working documents to enable the enumerator carry out his job effectively. Given that there were no house numbers or street names in townlands then, he drew up a map, noted and numbered the houses he had left forms at, and then presumably updated it when he collected the forms back, to ensure he didn’t miss anyone. Once a townland was complete, the need for the map was probably finished. I guess they got thrown away.

I spoke to one of the Assistant Directors at PRONI in Belfast a few years back. (They have the Northern Ireland censuses that have yet to be released (1937, 1951 and every 10 years thereafter). He told me that the space they take up is enormous. Costs a fortune. I suspect therefore that getting rid of surplus paperwork was probably why the maps were not kept. (But I agree they would have been interesting).

If you are trying to find where a particular property is, that was listed in the 1901 or 1911 censuses, you can do that using the Valuation revision books.

They are in the Valuation Office in Dublin.