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Over the weekend, in the continued search to try to look for very localised names, I was looking at Heneghan's in the 1926 census living outside of Connaught - to see if any were born outside of Connaught. Only one family (widow & daughters fit that description).
But I also found that the head of household of Fastnet Lighthouse was a Patrick Heneghan from Blacksod.
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The Conversation: 80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous. “One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online. These nearly 3 million records will be of great significance to Ireland’s population, and a global diaspora of some 80 million claiming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/20/the-conversation-80-million-people-globally-claim-irish-ancestry-why-the-release-of-1926-irish-census-records-is-so-momentous/