Sir,—Michael Moroney’s otherwise interesting piece on the last pre-Famine census (‘The 1841 census—do the numbers add up?’, HI 23.3, May/June 2015) unwittingly perpetuates a couple of common misunderstandings of key contemporary passages. The author is of course not the first to question the accuracy of the 1841 return. The census commissioners were themselves struck by ... Read more
