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".

Show top level table	Dundalk Upper	Show Louth IrlC table

Click on the 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]
Dundalk Upper IrlBarony Total		30,751	25,325	23,267	10,612	10,733	21,345	4,761	4,402	3,938	177	19	4,134
Louth IrlPar		17,843	9,647	6,845	2,690	2,768	5,458	1,759	1,400	1,103	32	4	1,139
Ballymascanlan IrlPar		15,998	6,674	5,545	2,276	2,377	4,653	1,191	1,096	894	28	1	923
Castletown IrlPar		2,611	1,043	1,038	359	367	726	189	209	145	9	1	155
Ballybarrack IrlPar		1,018	301	1,282	248	334	582	54	57	46	2	0	48
Barronstown IrlPar		2,209	967	727	316	328	644	171	140	128	5	0	133
Creggan IrlPar		24,815	15,502	12,774	5,401	6,015	11,416	2,970	2,636	2,414	58	3	2,475
Dunbin IrlPar		2,169	1,115	856	344	328	672	221	182	142	1	0	143
Dundalk IrlPar		6,202	13,204	12,346	6,425	6,306	12,731	2,435	2,337	2,209	85	16	2,310
Faughart IrlPar		2,480	1,869	1,532	645	688	1,333	365	335	307	18	0	325
Haggardstown IrlPar		1,400	1,146	918	399	417	816	235	188	152	27	0	179
Haynestown IrlPar		1,980	445	385	159	158	317	79	75	60	1	0	61
Inishkeen IrlPar		6,193	3,732	2,675	1,139	1,121	2,260	657	578	506	10	1	517
Kane IrlPar		750	363	301	138	127	265	70	69	54	3	0	57
Philipstown IrlPar		1,036	401	416	159	158	317	78	80	60	8	0	68
Roche IrlPar		3,305	1,373	1,018	441	473	914	260	210	174	4	1	179

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Dundalk Upper IrlBarony:

Rate	Date
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1841
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1851
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1861
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1861
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1861

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.

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.

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