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	Shillelagh	List for Wicklow 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]
Shillelagh IrlBarony Total	44,349	14,057	10,326	3,964	3,809	7,773	2,226	1,683	1,329	38	1	1,368
Ardoyne IrlPar	6,578	1,791	1,351	550	536	1,086	298	218	181	7	0	188
Fennagh IrlPar	10,524	4,314	3,710	1,471	1,478	2,949	770	655	521	10	2	533
Crecrin IrlPar	2,471	732	484	181	191	372	120	88	71	2	0	73
Moyacomb IrlPar	17,435	4,933	3,616	1,450	1,358	2,808	810	647	515	20	0	535
Carnew IrlPar	23,466	7,205	5,908	2,137	2,200	4,337	1,124	910	722	27	2	751
Crosspatrick IrlPar	4,647	1,506	871	388	353	741	249	156	135	6	0	141
Aghowle IrlPar	8,140	2,764	1,753	662	627	1,289	445	315	233	7	0	240
Liscolman IrlPar	2,483	639	497	189	180	369	91	81	65	0	0	65
Mullinacuff IrlPar	6,616	2,131	1,320	603	529	1,132	354	254	197	7	1	205

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.