Vision of Britain | 1891 Census: Population summary

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
		1851. [2]	1861. [3]	1871. [4]	1881. [5]	Total. [6]	Inhabited. [7]	Uninhabited. [8]	Building. [9]		1851. [11]	1861. [12]	1871. [13]	1881. [14]	Persons. [15]	Males. [16]	Females. [17]
Donegal IrlC Total	1,190,268	296,448	46,950	44,663	42,336	40,814	38,984	35,959	2,978	47	255,158	237,390	218,334	206,035	185,635	91,478	94,157	296,303
Banagh IrlBarony	177,354	42,912	6,873	6,543	6,007	5,823	5,498	5,182	305	11	37,526	35,339	31,287	29,400	26,263	12,536	13,727	26,859
Boylagh IrlBarony	156,285	22,845	3,960	4,124	4,200	4,379	4,322	4,020	292	10	21,642	22,120	21,988	22,448	20,637	9,851	10,786	10,407
Inishowen East IrlBarony	123,372	35,682	5,945	5,759	5,476	5,226	4,942	4,639	299	4	31,933	30,365	28,807	27,124	24,648	12,304	12,344	31,744
Inishowen West IrlBarony	76,849	19,780	3,141	2,888	2,810	2,633	2,486	2,321	164	1	16,311	15,310	14,397	13,357	12,043	5,940	6,103	26,954
Kilmacrenan IrlBarony	310,386	72,918	11,299	10,665	10,087	9,728	9,532	8,636	887	9	62,046	57,478	53,186	50,707	46,621	23,369	23,252	58,608
Raphoe North IrlBarony	79,422	-	-	-	4,086	3,783	3,530	3,148	378	4	-	-	20,443	18,100	16,063	8,102	7,961	58,312
Raphoe South IrlBarony	140,849	-	-	-	4,555	4,384	4,120	3,826	290	4	-	-	23,448	21,934	18,999	9,407	9,592	41,730
Tirhugh IrlBarony	125,753	36,839	5,870	5,497	5,115	4,858	4,554	4,187	363	4	31,657	28,144	24,778	22,965	20,361	9,969	10,392	41,689

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

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.