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	Kildare	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]
Kildare IrlC Total	418,415	114,488	95,724	48,960	41,986	90,946	19,388	16,823	14,596	544	54	15,194
Carbury IrlBarony	48,287	9,890	7,599	3,039	2,861	5,900	1,625	1,354	1,083	35	1	1,119
Clane IrlBarony	32,023	8,534	6,612	3,007	2,780	5,787	1,460	1,238	1,057	35	1	1,093
Connell IrlBarony	34,786	9,949	8,896	5,719	4,283	10,002	1,670	1,519	1,414	64	14	1,492
Ikeathy and Oughterany IrlBarony	25,753	6,162	5,239	2,297	2,035	4,332	1,092	978	820	31	3	854
Kilcullen IrlBarony	8,492	3,324	2,442	1,135	1,171	2,306	570	471	421	20	2	443
Kilkea and Moone IrlBarony	46,287	11,092	8,572	3,706	3,602	7,308	1,917	1,548	1,304	30	2	1,336
Naas North IrlBarony	25,580	8,081	8,119	3,354	3,279	6,633	1,392	1,268	1,078	51	6	1,135
Naas South IrlBarony	27,478	7,608	5,548	2,490	2,375	4,865	1,277	1,023	881	26	7	914
Narragh and Reban East IrlBarony	21,374	7,049	5,105	2,156	2,053	4,209	1,195	935	797	32	2	831
Narragh and Reban West IrlBarony	22,136	9,033	8,354	3,724	3,846	7,570	1,550	1,393	1,297	58	11	1,366
Offaly East IrlBarony	47,030	10,584	8,899	9,120	4,905	14,025	1,869	1,641	1,433	55	5	1,493
Offaly West IrlBarony	40,603	11,213	8,930	3,943	3,764	7,707	1,923	1,616	1,380	30	0	1,410
Salt North IrlBarony	21,930	7,717	7,807	3,652	3,324	6,976	1,153	1,173	1,058	63	0	1,121
Salt South IrlBarony	16,655	4,252	3,602	1,618	1,708	3,326	695	666	573	14	0	587

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.