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	Antrim	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]
Antrim IrlC Total	690,225	274,673	249,459	118,277	129,287	247,564	50,386	46,269	45,134	2,564	180	47,878
Antrim Lower IrlBarony	80,826	25,135	23,503	11,976	12,859	24,835	4,595	4,410	4,550	241	6	4,797
Antrim Upper IrlBarony	36,490	15,629	14,534	6,446	7,120	13,566	2,975	2,788	2,515	183	6	2,704
Belfast Lower IrlBarony	56,143	24,867	23,400	11,002	12,269	23,271	4,582	4,388	4,223	332	27	4,582
Belfast Upper IrlBarony	32,942	15,272	14,554	6,196	7,413	13,609	2,725	2,710	2,351	256	15	2,622
Cary IrlBarony	75,036	22,605	18,142	8,109	8,937	17,046	4,307	3,583	3,359	214	22	3,595
Dunluce Lower IrlBarony	30,576	12,229	10,057	4,605	5,320	9,925	2,413	2,047	1,961	124	25	2,110
Dunluce Upper IrlBarony	52,789	19,251	16,703	7,944	8,512	16,456	3,536	3,044	2,985	143	10	3,138
Glenarm Lower IrlBarony	64,945	10,907	9,853	4,808	5,015	9,823	1,873	1,797	1,768	114	21	1,903
Glenarm Upper IrlBarony	24,032	8,338	7,067	3,011	3,414	6,425	1,417	1,233	1,120	106	6	1,232
Kilconway IrlBarony	68,649	23,255	21,182	10,384	11,101	21,485	4,271	3,767	3,859	153	13	4,025
Massereene Lower IrlBarony	27,229	8,772	7,027	3,195	3,324	6,519	1,776	1,482	1,327	114	0	1,441
Massereene Upper IrlBarony	56,862	35,111	31,361	15,121	16,581	31,702	6,362	5,899	5,748	136	9	5,893
Toome Lower IrlBarony	36,135	29,056	28,670	14,259	15,626	29,885	5,245	4,941	5,243	255	16	5,514
Toome Upper IrlBarony	47,572	24,246	23,406	11,192	11,796	22,988	4,309	4,180	4,125	193	4	4,322
Belfast IrlCorpTown	5,637	77,622	103,067	55,842	65,760	121,602	13,249	15,446	18,595	1,541	54	20,190
Carrickfergus IrlBarony	16,702	9,379	8,520	4,214	5,208	9,422	1,681	1,676	1,605	161	1	1,767

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.

Click on the triangles for all about a particular number.

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.