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	Deece Lower	List for Meath 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]
Deece Lower IrlBarony Total	20,013	3,990	3,389	1,641	1,398	3,039	678	615	516	11	1	528
Agher IrlPar	2,063	386	347	132	137	269	59	65	49	3	0	52
Assey IrlPar	1,219	138	106	72	64	136	17	13	18	0	0	18
Balsoon IrlPar	1,269	340	336	154	153	307	62	60	52	1	1	54
Derrypatrick IrlPar	1,951	399	332	123	108	231	63	53	39	2	0	41
Galtrim IrlPar	4,129	735	567	239	223	462	132	110	88	3	0	91
Kilmessan IrlPar	3,337	773	647	408	316	724	138	123	114	3	0	117
Kiltale IrlPar	1,018	419	396	194	150	344	62	67	57	1	0	58
Knockmark IrlPar	2,877	630	527	264	205	469	117	104	71	1	0	72
Scurlockstown IrlPar	2,590	389	302	118	117	235	60	54	50	0	0	50
Trubley IrlPar	855	73	88	42	36	78	13	15	13	0	0	13

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.