Vision of Britain | 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	Shelmaliere East	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]
Shelmaliere East IrlBarony Total	16,364	6,041	5,711	2,217	2,334	4,551	1,088	1,050	877	17	0	894
Ballynaslaney IrlPar	2,645	1,061	843	319	325	644	188	167	124	4	0	128
Skreen IrlPar	1,366	438	439	162	167	329	83	84	67	1	0	68
St Margarets IrlPar	2,424	974	944	399	405	804	188	174	150	1	0	151
Ardcavan IrlPar	2,458	947	917	402	402	804	156	167	146	0	0	146
Ardcolm IrlPar	2,232	804	884	319	361	680	159	157	125	3	0	128
Artramon IrlPar	2,377	754	737	230	285	515	138	128	103	5	0	108
Kilpatrick IrlPar	2,739	879	697	276	295	571	159	144	118	6	0	124
Tikillin IrlPar	2,867	1,260	1,135	435	434	869	205	203	170	2	0	172

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.