1891 Census of Ireland, Census of Ireland, 1891. Part I: Area, Houses, and Population: also the Ages, Civil or Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Religion, and Education of the People. , Table 7 : " Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each parish, townland, and township in 1891".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in 1891. [1]	Houses								Out-offices and Farmsteadings in 1891. [10]	Population							Valuation of Houses, Land, &c. in 1891. [18]
			1851. [2]	1861. [3]	1871. [4]	1881. [5]	1891					1851. [11]	1861. [12]	1871. [13]	1881. [14]	1891
							Total. [6]	Inhabited. [7]	Uninhabited. [8]	Building. [9]						Persons. [15]	Males. [16]	Females. [17]
Leinster IProv Total		4,836,708	1,972,881	276,091	247,997	235,641	231,403	225,647	-	-	-	1,672,552	1,457,322	1,339,451	1,278,989	1,187,760	587,847	599,913	4,700,979
Carlow IrlC		221,295	86,228	11,889	10,649	9,956	9,386	8,814	8,151	645	18	68,075	57,137	51,650	46,568	40,936	20,552	20,384	164,794
Dublin IrlC		223,087	140,047	26,010	27,019	28,803	31,163	32,734	29,846	2,793	95	146,631	155,298	158,936	169,308	174,215	79,906	94,309	787,481
County of the City of Dublin IrlC		3,733	232,726	24,284	24,585	25,042	27,587	29,368	25,764	3,448	156	258,369	254,808	246,326	249,602	245,001	117,503	127,498	669,184
Kildare IrlC		418,496	114,488	16,823	15,194	14,547	14,092	13,385	12,428	940	17	95,724	90,946	83,614	75,804	70,206	38,407	31,799	338,556
Kilkenny IrlC		506,333	183,349	24,892	20,625	18,675	17,371	16,222	15,073	1,127	22	138,773	110,341	96,669	87,232	76,213	38,017	38,196	341,819
County of the City of Kilkenny IrlC		921	19,071	2,991	2,491	2,404	2,301	2,237	2,023	208	6	19,975	14,174	12,710	12,299	11,048	5,451	5,597	17,567
Offaly IrlC		493,263	146,857	20,042	17,046	15,253	14,612	13,780	12,840	921	19	112,080	90,043	75,900	72,852	65,563	33,777	31,786	243,641
Longford IrlC		257,770	115,491	14,675	13,459	12,226	11,680	10,882	10,369	496	17	82,348	71,694	64,501	61,009	52,647	26,681	25,966	153,276
Louth IrlC		201,164	110,940	17,932	15,394	14,416	13,715	13,073	12,000	1,035	38	90,812	75,973	70,511	65,387	59,165	29,623	29,542	214,203
County of the Town of Drogheda IrlC		454	17,300	3,329	3,277	3,222	2,887	2,841	2,536	301	4	16,845	14,740	13,510	12,297	11,873	5,619	6,254	19,444
Meath IrlC		578,298	183,116	25,320	21,674	19,315	18,316	17,355	16,059	1,239	57	140,750	110,373	95,558	87,469	76,987	39,224	37,763	547,388
Laoighis IrlC		424,853	153,792	20,432	17,341	15,840	14,853	14,088	13,135	924	29	111,623	90,650	79,771	73,124	64,883	33,171	31,712	259,786
Westmeath IrlC		434,017	141,300	19,597	17,063	15,644	14,597	13,794	12,949	788	57	111,409	90,879	78,432	71,798	65,109	33,927	31,182	316,639
Wexford IrlC		573,200	202,033	31,349	27,051	25,515	24,866	23,710	22,238	1,430	42	180,159	143,815	132,666	123,854	111,778	54,935	56,843	358,598
Wicklow IrlC		499,822	126,143	16,526	15,129	14,783	13,977	13,364	12,203	1,140	21	98,979	86,451	78,697	70,386	62,136	31,054	31,082	268,602

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Leinster IProv:

Rate	Date
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1871
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1891
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1891
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1891

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 listed valuations in pounds, shillings and pence but they are here rounded to the nearest pound,
4	The numbers in this table for Provinces, Counties and Baronies have been carefully checked. However, the parish listing is often hard to read and some transcriptions will be incorrect.

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.

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