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]
Kilkenny IrlC Total	506,333	183,349	24,892	20,625	18,675	17,371	16,222	15,073	1,127	22	138,773	110,341	96,669	87,232	76,213	38,017	38,196	341,819
Callan IrlBarony	5,653	6,128	902	780	709	646	598	544	54	0	6,365	3,986	3,410	3,181	2,610	1,236	1,374	5,877
Crannagh IrlBarony	58,075	17,921	2,477	1,990	1,740	1,589	1,497	1,359	136	2	12,742	9,798	8,513	7,472	6,398	3,182	3,216	38,353
Fassadinin IrlBarony	68,174	30,537	3,670	3,206	2,925	2,764	2,645	2,482	158	5	20,917	17,849	15,908	14,438	12,742	6,408	6,334	39,603
Galmoy IrlBarony	40,236	15,614	1,944	1,598	1,399	1,304	1,187	1,086	96	5	10,383	8,172	6,825	6,044	5,276	2,635	2,641	24,831
Gowran IrlBarony	111,706	39,098	5,612	4,657	4,224	3,810	3,506	3,237	266	3	29,915	24,071	21,130	18,844	16,816	8,262	8,554	76,588
Ida IrlBarony	60,133	20,869	2,810	2,280	2,081	2,007	1,896	1,782	111	3	16,150	12,803	11,346	10,434	9,385	4,737	4,648	38,555
Iverk IrlBarony	40,528	15,603	2,298	1,964	1,869	1,798	1,732	1,659	72	1	13,574	11,465	10,389	9,759	8,501	4,278	4,223	36,807
Kells IrlBarony	38,376	12,863	1,760	1,415	1,286	1,191	1,070	980	90	0	9,725	7,417	6,334	5,586	4,723	2,351	2,372	25,083
Knocktopher IrlBarony	46,765	15,028	1,906	1,546	1,437	1,351	1,254	1,183	70	1	10,942	8,468	7,526	6,800	5,833	2,894	2,939	26,337
Shillelogher IrlBarony	36,685	9,688	1,513	1,189	1,005	911	837	761	74	2	8,060	6,312	5,288	4,674	3,929	2,034	1,895	29,784
Kilkenny IrlCity	921	19,071	2,991	2,491	2,404	2,301	2,237	2,023	208	6	19,975	14,174	12,710	12,299	11,048	5,451	5,597	17,567

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