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	Athlone	List for Roscommon 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]
Athlone IrlBarony Total	137,523	51,927	36,128	16,321	14,928	31,249	9,404	6,844	5,818	148	19	5,985
Athleague IrlPar	13,012	5,087	3,134	1,388	1,320	2,708	928	643	526	2	1	529
Taghboy IrlPar	13,996	3,825	2,792	1,285	1,217	2,502	688	529	467	15	1	483
Cam IrlPar	12,403	3,830	2,316	1,078	963	2,041	730	513	426	9	0	435
Drum IrlPar	15,991	5,048	3,766	1,800	1,614	3,414	895	725	661	9	1	671
Dysart IrlPar	6,569	1,739	1,134	569	544	1,113	317	234	206	7	0	213
Fuerty IrlPar	13,476	5,810	4,317	1,479	1,428	2,907	1,082	691	555	10	0	565
Killinvoy IrlPar	5,643	2,388	1,854	662	644	1,306	444	362	253	3	1	257
Kilmeane IrlPar	8,002	3,194	1,774	755	706	1,461	535	329	294	4	0	298
Kiltoom IrlPar	10,458	4,150	3,177	1,445	1,374	2,819	765	661	552	18	1	571
Rahara IrlPar	5,363	1,514	753	330	301	631	276	156	125	6	2	133
St Johns IrlPar	8,019	2,806	2,126	937	862	1,799	561	444	366	13	3	382
St Peters IrlPar	7,393	6,634	5,302	3,309	2,608	5,917	1,088	838	815	40	6	861
Taghmaconnell IrlPar	18,827	4,807	3,048	1,247	1,280	2,527	854	590	513	12	1	526
Tisrara IrlPar	8,482	3,356	2,031	717	713	1,430	627	384	287	3	2	292
Roscommon IrlPar	9,819	8,191	7,225	2,519	2,536	5,055	1,402	1,053	834	46	3	883

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.