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]
Dublin IrlC Total	223,087	140,047	26,010	27,019	28,803	31,163	32,734	29,846	2,793	95	146,631	155,298	158,936	169,308	174,215	79,906	94,309	787,481
Balrothery East IrlBarony	30,021	15,186	2,853	2,742	2,690	2,563	2,506	2,210	294	2	13,587	12,244	11,459	11,189	10,043	4,778	5,265	40,293
Balrothery West IrlBarony	25,194	6,427	965	846	708	625	584	546	35	3	5,017	4,057	3,243	2,898	2,469	1,266	1,203	22,872
Castleknock IrlBarony	21,372	9,855	1,632	1,566	1,474	1,434	1,477	1,349	121	7	10,206	10,662	9,597	9,777	10,178	5,726	4,452	42,490
Coolock IrlBarony	28,198	19,188	3,439	3,369	3,541	4,064	4,626	4,174	436	16	19,375	18,643	19,125	21,145	25,087	12,229	12,858	104,262
Dublin IrlBarony	1,693	12,600	2,348	2,662	3,123	3,883	3,882	3,665	206	11	15,368	18,713	21,391	23,680	24,715	10,598	14,117	107,330
Nethercross IrlBarony	21,943	6,204	1,067	945	884	839	844	738	104	2	5,249	4,695	4,165	3,688	3,232	1,654	1,578	26,577
Newcastle IrlBarony	22,771	7,397	1,159	1,002	977	929	961	897	62	2	6,220	5,137	4,822	4,561	4,384	2,144	2,240	32,954
Rathdown IrlBarony	32,875	38,775	8,044	9,021	10,083	10,623	11,012	9,923	1,073	16	45,083	50,158	52,499	56,839	55,065	23,451	31,614	255,925
Uppercross IrlBarony	39,021	24,415	4,503	4,866	5,323	6,203	6,842	6,344	462	36	26,526	30,989	32,635	35,531	39,042	18,060	20,982	154,780
City of Dublin IrlCity	3,733	232,726	24,284	24,585	25,042	27,587	29,368	25,764	3,448	156	258,369	254,808	246,326	249,602	245,001	117,503	127,498	669,184

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