Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown through time | Census tables with data for the Barony

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Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown

Barony

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Total Population 1821 to 1891: Population fell from 18,118 in 1821 to 11,873 in 1891.
Occupational Structure in 1831: Out of 4,222 males aged 20 and over, 1,431 worked in Retail and Handicrafts.
Housing in 1851: 19.22 per cent of houses were classed as "Mud cabins having only one room" (the all-Ireland percentage was 13.).
Literacy in 1851: 34.1 per cent of persons aged 5 and above could both read and write.

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Preferred Name:: BOROUGH OF DROGHEDA
Unit Type:: Barony
Status:: Irish Corporate Town
Date created:: 01 Nov 1412
Date abolished:
Unit ID:: 12874637
Authorities:: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837)

Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown, County Louth

Notes:

Drogheda was one of eight Irish urban areas listed as not part of any barony in the county reports of the 1851 census, being named there as 'orough of Drogheda'. Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) says "in 1220 ... the Boyne, which now intersects the town, formed the boundary between the counties of Meath and Louth, and the two portions of the town on its opposite banks constituted separate boroughs. ... The two boroughs continued till the reign of Henry IV. to be separately governed by their respective charters, and each had its separate corporate officers, from which circumstance the merchants frequenting the town were burdened with the payment of tolls and customs to both corporations, dissensions and debates were daily springing up between the two bodies, and in their contests blood was often shed and many lives were lost. To put an end to these evils, Henry IV., by charter dated Nov. 1st, 1412, with the consent of the burgesses and commonalties, united both boroughs under one corporation, and erected the town, with the suburbs on both sides of the river, into a county of itself.

Alternative names

The following alternative names exist:

Name	Status	Language	Authority
DROGHEDA BOROUGH	Alternate	English	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 956.
DROGHEDA TOWN	Alternate	English	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 950.
MUNICIPAL BOROUGH OF DROGHEDA	Alternate	English	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 58.
TOWN OF DROGHEDA	Alternate	English	1831 Census of Ireland, Table [1], 'Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Acts, Ireland:- Enumeration 1831.'.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Authority
COUNTY OF THE TOWN OF DROGHEDA	Irish County	1831 Census of Ireland, Table [1], 'Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Acts, Ireland:- Enumeration 1831.'.
LOUTH	Irish County	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 950.
MEATH	Irish County	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 630.

Boundary changes

We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Authority
BALLYMAKENNY	Irish Civil Parish	1831 Census of Ireland, Table [1], 'Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Acts, Ireland:- Enumeration 1831.'.
DONORE	Irish Civil Parish	1891 Census of Ireland, Table 7, 'Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each parish, townland, and township in 1891'.
ST MARYS	Irish Civil Parish	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 950.
ST PETERS	Irish Civil Parish	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 951.
TULLYALLEN	Irish Civil Parish	UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 956.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown through time | Census tables with data for the Barony, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/unit/12874637

Date accessed: 02nd May 2024