If you had ancestors or relatives living on or visiting the Isle of Man in the mid-19th century, check out FreeCEN (https://www.freecen.org.uk), where the first 11,700 records from the 1851 census have just been transcribed and uploaded, and made freely accessible.
For Scotland coverage, FreeCEN tends to be quite good for the 1841 and 1851 census, for some areas even further beyond this. Ireland is not covered at all, but you will find English and Welsh areas featured also. Coverage is not complete, but where an area is present, it tends to have, in my opinion, the highest quality transcriptions available online.
Happy hunting!
Chris
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