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	Shelburne	List for Wexford 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]
Shelburne IrlBarony Total	51,103	18,712	16,433	6,299	6,914	13,213	3,092	2,802	2,335	101	7	2,443
St Marys IrlPar	4,922	9,141	11,121	3,539	4,377	7,916	1,450	1,565	1,286	60	9	1,355
Whitechurch IrlPar	5,342	1,384	1,186	443	471	914	210	186	149	10	0	159
Ballybrazil IrlPar	2,370	567	494	179	211	390	90	66	58	1	0	59
Clonmines IrlPar	1,380	377	318	116	131	247	65	52	43	2	0	45
Fethard IrlPar	3,930	2,178	1,943	748	850	1,598	379	374	305	13	2	320
Hook IrlPar	1,065	523	504	186	231	417	87	84	79	3	1	83
Killesk IrlPar	2,820	1,067	880	337	354	691	173	155	117	3	0	120
Kilmokea IrlPar	3,420	1,220	1,149	457	502	959	193	187	166	13	1	180
Owenduff IrlPar	7,980	2,625	2,146	865	910	1,775	417	340	305	3	0	308
Rathroe IrlPar	2,397	770	659	237	254	491	130	111	80	1	0	81
St James and Dunbrody IrlPar	8,489	3,693	3,385	1,337	1,435	2,772	638	609	500	30	2	532
Tellarought IrlPar	1,654	381	323	146	147	293	53	47	41	1	1	43
Templetown IrlPar	4,157	1,426	1,442	537	596	1,133	246	250	213	8	0	221
Tintern IrlPar	6,863	2,680	2,163	780	880	1,660	434	361	299	14	0	313

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.