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	Inishowen East	List for Donegal 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]
Inishowen East IrlBarony Total	123,357	35,682	31,996	15,024	15,341	30,365	6,418	5,946	5,560	180	19	5,759
Clonca IrlPar	19,643	6,778	6,049	2,973	2,956	5,929	1,160	1,096	1,015	29	2	1,046
Clonmany IrlPar	23,376	6,489	5,780	2,787	2,881	5,668	1,183	1,129	1,101	30	8	1,139
Culdaff IrlPar	20,047	5,883	5,186	2,442	2,453	4,895	1,008	932	841	12	2	855
Donagh IrlPar	25,259	5,447	5,262	2,158	2,316	4,474	1,034	915	855	47	1	903
Moville Lower IrlPar	15,950	6,016	5,306	2,591	2,601	5,192	1,078	1,002	958	32	5	995
Moville Upper IrlPar	19,082	5,069	4,413	2,073	2,134	4,207	955	872	790	30	1	821

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.