Irish surname maps

Where your family name lived

In April 2026 the 1926 census was opened to the public for the first time. It covers 2,971,992 people in about 630,000 homes, and it was the first census taken after Ireland won its independence. The oldest people on those forms were born before the Famine and lived through emigration, war and the birth of a new state. We took every name in the census and used them to find the homeplace of every surname on the island.

Why 1911 for the six northern counties?
Northern Ireland took its own census in 1926, but its household forms were lost, most likely destroyed during the Second World War. The 1911 census is the latest count that survives for those six counties, so we use it there.
How is the map made?
We count every person with the surname in each of the 3,676 census districts, then divide by everyone living there. A parish where half the people share your name now outranks a city where a few thousand do. We blend each district with its neighbours, because families lived across lines on paper, and shade the result in seven bands. See the four steps.
Does the map show my own family?
It shows where people with your surname lived when the census counted them. It is not a family crest and makes no claim about one family's line. To mark where your own people came from, add a home place to your map.

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Christmas dates
Order by Friday 4 December for delivery before Christmas. A made-for-you map takes a little longer, so order those by Tuesday 1 December. Missed the post? The digital set comes by email, for €12.
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Free to Ireland and the US. Delivery to Canada and Australia is added at checkout. A print partner near the address makes your map in 3 to 6 working days and posts it with tracking. In the UK, order from our Etsy shop, with free delivery there too. We post the framed 76 × 102 cm map to Ireland and the US.
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