census records

[johnstonville]

Hi
What happened to the online irish census records for the 1800's?  I used to search online for them and got many results.  after a break of 3 or 4 years I have come back to search and they only show results for 1901 and 1911.  I can only search online as live in NZ
Thanks to all replies

[Wexflyer]

Hi
What happened to the online irish census records for the 1800's?  I used to search online for them and got many results.  after a break of 3 or 4 years I have come back to search and they only show results for 1901 and 1911.  I can only search online as live in NZ
Thanks to all replies

You are mistaken. Only a few fragments survive from the 1800s. Those fragments may be offline at present due to restructuring of the National Archives website.

[Sinann]

They are still there, you can use the old site

https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

Or click on the pale blue square on the new site

https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census-c19/

[johnstonville]

thankyou wexflyer and Sinan
I can get the records for 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851 but not 1861, 1871 + 1881 which are the ones I am wanting . 
when do you think the records will become online again?

[aghadowey]

"The original census returns for 1861 and 1871 were destroyed shortly after the censuses were taken. Those for 1881 and 1891 were pulped during the First World."
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/history.html