ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

Historical records, especially Valuation, Parish, Census, and other government records, help us to understand the human histories of island communities.

Early 20th- century Valuation Record from the village of Middlequarter in Inishbofin, listing head of household, value of land and buildings, and landlord (courtesy of Tailte Eireann)

Valuation record for Middlequarter village in Inishbofin (Image © Tailte Eireann, Irish Valuations Office)

Copy of a 1901 Census of Ireland form from Inishark, listing names of the Heads-of-Households, number of other residents in each house (courtesy of National Archives of Ireland)

1901 Census list of residential buildings, Inishark (Image © National Archives of Ireland)

Detail of a page in the Inishbofin Parish records, displaying schedules of Station Masses in Inishbofin and Inishark in 1888 (courtesy of National Library of Ireland)

Parish record detail, Inishbofin (Image © National Library of Ireland)

Government report commissioned in order to develop relief policies after the collapse of the fishing industry in Inishbofin and Inishark, written by Thomas Brady and published in 1873

Government report on fisheries, 1873