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	Louth	List for Louth IrlC

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]
Louth IrlBarony Total	25,705	12,946	9,424	3,761	3,794	7,555	2,378	1,893	1,502	62	5	1,569
Louth IrlPar	17,843	9,647	6,845	2,690	2,768	5,458	1,759	1,400	1,103	32	4	1,139
Inishkeen IrlPar	6,193	3,732	2,675	1,139	1,121	2,260	657	578	506	10	1	517
Clonkeehan IrlPar	605	380	218	84	76	160	68	39	30	3	0	33
Darver IrlPar	1,992	720	459	186	185	371	125	89	72	7	0	79
Dromiskin IrlPar	5,312	2,507	2,210	959	943	1,902	456	408	356	13	1	370
Killincoole IrlPar	1,397	697	567	212	215	427	131	110	88	5	0	93
Mansfieldstown IrlPar	2,418	1,107	652	248	223	471	206	130	88	6	1	95

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.