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	Inishowen West	List for Donegal 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]
Inishowen West IrlBarony Total	76,828	19,780	16,331	7,624	7,686	15,310	3,660	3,142	2,826	59	3	2,888
Burt IrlPar	12,349	3,857	3,138	1,404	1,319	2,723	684	556	501	1	0	502
Desertegny IrlPar	7,577	1,802	1,604	778	746	1,524	359	315	290	6	0	296
Fahan Lower IrlPar	24,783	5,823	4,941	2,346	2,545	4,891	1,091	961	877	39	2	918
Fahan Upper IrlPar	10,430	2,949	2,383	1,062	1,086	2,148	522	458	410	0	0	410
Inch IrlPar	3,401	978	769	361	337	698	173	153	132	2	0	134
Mintiaghs Or Barr of Inch IrlPar	3,259	334	237	147	127	274	64	50	53	0	0	53
Muff IrlPar	15,030	4,037	3,259	1,526	1,526	3,052	767	649	563	11	1	575

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.