The 1961 census showed that at least half of all houses outside urban areas had no fixed lavatory facilities at all, indoor or outdoor. In Longford, for example, there were 1,590 indoor toilets for the county’s population of 30,000 people. In Roscommon 67 per cent of homes had no toilets of any kind.26 Over the country as a whole, just 15 per cent of farmhouses had a flushing toilet.
