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	Carlow	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]
Carlow IrlC Total	221,293	86,228	68,075	28,139	28,998	57,137	14,562	11,889	10,231	391	27	10,649
Carlow IrlBarony	31,354	15,937	15,577	5,925	6,340	12,265	2,560	2,301	2,050	139	4	2,193
Forth IrlBarony	39,510	11,427	8,270	3,390	3,380	6,770	1,948	1,532	1,254	43	1	1,298
Idrone East IrlBarony	52,858	20,765	16,572	7,030	7,384	14,414	3,616	3,007	2,643	83	11	2,737
Idrone West IrlBarony	23,066	8,435	5,995	2,617	2,700	5,317	1,486	1,117	990	24	2	1,016
Rathvilly IrlBarony	44,806	19,272	13,812	5,909	5,947	11,856	3,252	2,550	2,143	54	7	2,204
St Mullins Lower IrlBarony	21,914	7,640	5,781	2,410	2,434	4,844	1,226	1,001	833	31	1	865
St Mullins Upper IrlBarony	7,785	2,752	2,068	858	813	1,671	474	381	318	17	1	336

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.