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Junior Cycle History: Local and family history
How often Local and family history comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Local and family history, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Local and family history.
(a)The oldest complete Irish census returns, which can be searched free online, are from…
- 1841 and 1851
- 1901 and 1911
- 1861 and 1871
(b)Which information can a historian find on a 1911 census return?
- How each person voted in 1910
- Daily meals and favourite foods
- Names, ages, jobs and religion
(c)A man is listed as 40 years old in the 1901 census. In about which year was he born?
- About 1861
- About 1871
- About 1841
Show the answers
(a) 1901 and 1911
(b) Names, ages, jobs and religion
(c) About 1861
Common Level
Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q1 |
| 2024 | Q6 |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other History topics
- Chronology and timelines
- Working with sources
- Archaeology
- Museums, archives and heritage
- Exploration and conquest
- Genocide and the Holocaust
- Great Famine and emigration
- Historical concepts
- Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising
- American & French Revolutions
- Physical force tradition
- Sporting & cultural movements
- Technology and innovation
- The 1960s
- The Northern Ireland Troubles
- The Reformation
- The Renaissance
- World War I or World War II
- Ancient or medieval civilisation
- Early Christian Ireland
- Fascism and communism
- Life and death in medieval times
- Parliamentary tradition
- Patterns of change over time
- Settlement and plantation
- The Cold War
- War of Independence & Civil War
- Women in 20th-century Ireland