Donaghadee, a town in County Down, was not far behind, with a 99.7% percentage.

The county with the greatest literacy rate at the time, Dublin County (96.6%), was found to be absent from the city core, according to recently digitised data from the Census of Ireland, 1911.

The results are included in the second installment of the Stories from Census 1911 Series, according to Eimear Crowley, a statistician from the Ireland Central Statistics Office (CSO).

The series' initial edition examined demographic data and value, providing information on the wealth and poverty levels of the nation at the time.

According to her, a group of CSO volunteers have been working to uncover tales from the 1911 Census, and the most recent release offers further details on 1911 life, including an examination of literacy rates in Ireland.

A literacy question was asked of people who were nine years of age and older during the census.

The results showed that while literacy rates tended to be higher in the North East, Tipperary, and Dublin, they were much lower along the Atlantic coast.

Belfast City, Antrim, Dublin County, and Dublin City were the top four literacy-scoring regions.

Leinster accounted for eleven of the twenty District Electoral Divisions (DEDs) with the highest literacy rates, while Belfast City, Antrim, or Down accounted for seven of them.

A notable instance was the 1911 literacy rate of 99.7% in Donaghadee Urban DED in Down, which was among the highest in the country.

There were 1,797 people living in this region who were nine years of age or older; five of them were considered illiterate.

With a 38.8% literacy rate, Lettermore DED in Galway was found to have one of the lowest rates of literacy in 1911. Of the 1,003 people who were nine years of age and older, 614 were illiterate.

The Louden household from Donaghadee Urban DED in Down, which has a high literacy rate, and the O'Toole family from Lettermore DED in Galway, which has a poor literacy rate, utilise their 1911 Census return forms to share their tales. These two homes are also examined in the CSO's Chapter on Literacy.