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]
Sligo IrlC Total	451,815	180,886	23,221	22,981	21,555	20,521	19,210	18,475	717	18	128,515	124,845	115,493	111,578	98,013	48,670	49,343	212,473
Carbury IrlBarony	76,603	46,597	6,460	5,987	5,657	5,301	5,186	4,878	301	8	38,059	33,746	29,930	29,224	26,707	13,119	13,588	58,366
Coolavin IrlBarony	25,814	10,206	1,429	1,556	1,545	1,518	1,397	1,379	17	1	7,895	8,825	8,406	8,069	7,055	3,471	3,584	10,107
Corran IrlBarony	45,376	18,489	2,485	2,373	2,231	2,152	2,042	1,971	69	2	13,173	13,330	12,152	11,570	10,198	5,117	5,081	26,299
Leyny IrlBarony	121,543	37,096	4,834	5,142	4,910	4,639	4,319	4,205	109	5	25,283	27,149	26,166	24,982	21,628	10,687	10,941	39,371
Tireragh IrlBarony	106,673	36,759	4,342	4,356	4,059	3,906	3,530	3,416	114	0	24,324	22,879	21,857	21,449	18,616	9,356	9,260	42,083
Tirerrill IrlBarony	75,807	31,739	3,671	3,567	3,153	3,005	2,736	2,626	107	2	19,781	18,916	16,982	16,284	13,809	6,920	6,889	36,246

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Sligo 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.