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]
Down IrlC Total	611,927	368,143	63,630	62,197	62,093	61,039	63,225	56,712	6,182	331	328,753	308,680	293,449	272,107	267,059	126,268	140,791	864,780
Belfast IrlCorpTown	5,991	70,447	13,489	20,190	29,918	41,271	52,017	46,376	4,987	654	87,062	121,369	174,412	208,122	255,950	118,759	137,191	689,810
Ards Lower IrlBarony	38,454	29,911	5,699	5,768	5,498	5,430	5,498	4,828	625	45	28,519	27,458	24,258	21,598	21,564	9,739	11,825	69,460
Ards Upper IrlBarony	29,706	16,964	3,196	2,940	2,793	2,725	2,600	2,348	249	3	15,650	13,988	12,639	10,980	10,164	4,642	5,522	38,615
Castlereagh Lower IrlBarony	51,714	27,567	4,896	5,077	5,558	5,860	6,136	5,463	615	58	25,312	25,375	26,893	26,048	27,256	12,589	14,667	114,899
Castlereagh Upper IrlBarony	53,888	32,252	5,856	5,464	5,061	4,815	4,677	4,284	387	6	28,795	26,703	24,086	21,893	20,031	9,631	10,400	70,958
Dufferin IrlBarony	17,215	9,410	1,454	1,466	1,584	1,473	1,442	1,296	146	0	7,504	7,721	7,916	7,221	6,030	2,707	3,323	23,249
Iveagh Lower Lower Half IrlBarony	46,040	30,459	4,981	4,942	4,771	4,317	4,235	3,731	504	0	26,364	25,932	23,239	19,787	17,003	8,108	8,895	57,635
Iveagh Lower Upper Half IrlBarony	47,573	39,687	6,635	6,861	6,525	5,984	5,540	4,996	542	2	38,889	37,021	32,113	26,749	23,273	11,199	12,074	73,511
Iveagh Upper Lower Half IrlBarony	96,306	47,024	8,205	7,859	7,491	6,788	6,233	5,616	608	9	39,814	36,854	33,707	28,485	24,102	11,386	12,716	70,025
Iveagh Upper Upper Half IrlBarony	63,301	40,325	7,075	6,682	6,594	6,175	5,915	5,173	735	7	35,147	31,519	29,725	26,826	22,997	10,631	12,366	83,922
Kinelarty IrlBarony	40,325	20,895	3,295	3,157	3,094	2,737	2,665	2,452	211	2	17,050	15,594	13,944	12,398	10,947	5,215	5,732	38,534
Lecale Lower IrlBarony	30,976	12,962	2,152	2,003	1,987	1,847	1,741	1,522	216	3	10,467	9,084	8,512	7,662	6,459	3,136	3,323	36,221
Lecale Upper IrlBarony	30,700	18,814	3,109	2,898	2,860	2,726	2,598	2,325	270	3	15,638	14,033	13,255	12,172	10,973	5,240	5,733	43,814
Newry Lordship Of IrlBarony	16,182	18,907	3,258	3,009	2,910	2,985	2,909	2,515	390	4	17,843	14,950	14,419	14,680	12,337	5,869	6,468	35,902
Mourne IrlBarony	47,878	16,269	2,684	2,481	2,427	2,341	2,362	2,192	170	0	13,825	13,070	12,588	11,691	10,872	5,242	5,630	21,530

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