Vision of Ireland | 1861 Census: Population summary

1861 Census of Ireland, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1861. Part I. Area, Population and Number of Houses, by Townlands and Electoral Divisions., Table [1] : " Area, population and number of houses".

List for top level	Londonderry	List for Ireland Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area (Acres) [1]	Population					Houses
		In 1841	In 1851	In 1861			In 1841	In 1851	In 1861
		Persons [2]	Persons [3]	Males [4]	Females [5]	Persons [6]	Number [7]	Number [8]	Inhabited [9]	Uninhabited [10]	Building [11]	Total [12]
Londonderry IrlC Total	513,388	222,174	191,868	88,560	95,649	184,209	41,027	35,356	33,645	1,565	64	35,274
Coleraine IrlBarony	85,837	34,830	27,739	12,344	13,697	26,041	6,675	5,410	5,060	247	4	5,311
Keenaght IrlBarony	130,329	33,832	29,016	12,858	13,598	26,456	6,505	5,673	5,183	302	3	5,488
Loughinsholin IrlBarony	171,662	90,212	71,967	34,399	36,483	70,882	16,267	13,484	13,114	457	15	13,586
Coleraine North East Liberties Of IrlBarony	18,006	11,996	11,188	4,863	5,625	10,488	2,352	2,132	2,008	150	8	2,166
Londonderry North West Liberties Of IrlBarony	12,773	20,379	23,772	10,970	12,433	23,403	3,388	3,532	3,381	214	19	3,614
Tirkeeran IrlBarony	94,781	30,925	28,186	13,123	13,813	26,936	5,840	5,125	4,899	195	15	5,109

Comments:

1	Parishes were often divided between different Baronies, and Baronies were sometimes divided between different Counties, but this reconstruction always lists the totals for whole Parishes or Baronies. The original table also sometimes lists separate counts for 'Towns' and the remainders of Parishes, but here again we list only Parish totals.
2	The original table lists areas in Acres, Rods and Perches, but they have been converted here into decimal acres.
3	The original table also includes Poor Law and General Valuations for each area.

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This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.