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".

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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]
Waterford IrlC Total	455,773	172,971	138,754	53,561	57,398	110,959	26,244	21,666	18,123	789	42	18,954
Coshmore and Coshbride IrlBarony	88,253	32,986	24,898	9,238	9,574	18,812	4,870	3,910	3,161	135	8	3,304
Decies Within Drum IrlBarony	57,326	26,566	18,600	7,082	7,332	14,414	4,160	3,050	2,546	89	2	2,637
Decies Without Drum IrlBarony	137,654	54,412	43,275	16,860	17,986	34,846	7,987	6,415	5,504	155	13	5,672
Gaultiere IrlBarony	31,587	13,615	13,178	5,037	5,869	10,906	2,200	2,018	1,643	104	2	1,749
Glenahiry IrlBarony	19,672	6,271	4,105	1,648	1,622	3,270	932	642	497	17	8	522
Middlethird IrlBarony	44,610	17,151	14,881	6,051	6,805	12,856	2,797	2,646	2,278	196	5	2,479
Upperthird IrlBarony	76,671	21,970	19,817	7,645	8,210	15,855	3,298	2,985	2,494	93	4	2,591
Waterford IrlCity	533	23,216	25,297	10,749	12,544	23,293	3,150	3,957	3,369	237	11	3,617

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.