The 1926 Census of Ireland offers a detailed snapshot of everyday life in Ardmore and Grange, County Waterford, during the early years of the Irish Free State. This site brings those census returns together as a browsable local history resource covering households, surnames, Irish-language use, and townland-level patterns.
Use the overview below to move through the Ardmore area town by town, or jump straight to searchable household listings, name data, statistics, and the interactive census map.
Explore: Households, Names & Origins, Statistics, Map, About the project, and the companion blog post.
Key Findings
The returns gathered here cover 1,146 people living in 277 households across 46 townlands in the Ardmore and Grange area. For a fuller statistical breakdown, see the statistics page, or go straight to the household listings.
Across the area as a whole, 51% of residents with a recorded language entry were listed as speaking some Irish in 1926. Among the largest townlands, Curragh and Monea stand out for relatively strong Irish-language rates alongside substantial populations.
The biggest recorded townlands by population were Ardmore with 180 people, Curragh with 155, and Ballinamona with 64. Those larger places are a good starting point if you want to compare the census across the district townland by townland.