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]
Clare IrlC Total	768,265	286,394	33,145	29,105	26,834	25,454	23,883	22,263	1,554	66	212,440	166,305	147,864	141,457	124,483	63,138	61,345	316,267
Bunratty Lower IrlBarony	57,315	23,535	2,627	2,218	1,927	1,745	1,700	1,503	193	4	15,263	12,337	9,984	8,802	7,709	3,898	3,811	43,156
Bunratty Upper IrlBarony	53,595	18,370	2,129	1,772	1,608	1,409	1,319	1,230	81	8	11,732	9,651	8,392	7,772	6,852	3,526	3,326	24,497
Burren IrlBarony	74,361	12,786	1,456	1,343	1,212	1,160	975	880	92	3	8,742	7,249	6,142	5,795	4,615	2,406	2,209	20,716
Clonderalaw IrlBarony	75,879	29,413	3,381	2,831	2,670	2,561	2,412	2,268	135	9	20,719	16,512	15,089	14,552	12,927	6,510	6,417	29,991
Corcomroe IrlBarony	61,385	25,979	2,916	2,734	2,626	2,472	2,343	2,186	151	6	20,369	15,793	14,514	13,988	12,493	6,414	6,079	26,992
Ibrickan IrlBarony	56,696	25,186	2,837	2,684	2,599	2,513	2,363	2,252	109	2	18,675	15,728	14,560	14,293	12,770	6,520	6,250	19,979
Inchiquin IrlBarony	88,387	21,231	2,564	2,290	2,100	1,985	1,789	1,715	71	3	14,468	12,607	11,510	11,079	9,434	4,827	4,607	26,711
Islands IrlBarony	63,592	29,264	3,580	3,116	2,984	2,886	2,832	2,636	185	11	26,503	18,727	17,217	16,994	15,161	7,596	7,565	33,956
Moyarta IrlBarony	68,680	38,227	4,874	4,460	3,950	3,928	3,724	3,403	320	1	33,559	25,698	21,833	21,038	18,688	9,204	9,484	31,739
Tulla Lower IrlBarony	73,455	32,217	3,380	2,795	2,538	2,316	2,135	2,040	80	15	19,353	15,601	13,649	12,832	11,276	5,789	5,487	30,039
Tulla Upper IrlBarony	94,920	30,186	3,401	2,862	2,620	2,479	2,291	2,150	137	4	23,057	16,402	14,974	14,312	12,558	6,448	6,110	28,489

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