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]
Louth IrlC Total	201,164	110,940	17,932	15,394	14,416	13,715	13,073	12,000	1,035	38	90,812	75,973	70,511	65,387	59,165	29,623	29,542	214,203
Ardee IrlBarony	53,822	28,704	4,250	3,455	3,130	2,847	2,549	2,336	195	17	22,274	17,128	15,094	13,472	11,297	5,701	5,596	57,816
Drogheda IrlBarony	4,059	2,229	547	454	397	347	313	289	24	0	2,328	2,023	1,736	1,432	1,298	611	687	6,326
Dundalk Lower IrlBarony	37,854	20,196	3,332	2,790	2,649	2,544	2,458	2,225	233	0	15,730	13,314	13,646	11,996	10,553	5,172	5,381	21,934
Dundalk Upper IrlBarony	30,898	25,325	4,402	4,134	4,204	4,209	4,262	3,919	327	16	23,267	21,345	20,866	21,254	20,898	10,557	10,341	55,021
Ferrard IrlBarony	48,812	21,540	3,508	2,992	2,611	2,477	2,339	2,149	188	3	17,789	14,608	12,601	11,294	9,996	4,999	4,997	45,083
Louth IrlBarony	25,719	12,946	1,893	1,569	1,425	1,291	1,152	1,082	68	2	9,424	7,555	6,568	5,939	5,123	2,583	2,540	28,024
Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown	454	17,300	3,329	3,277	3,222	2,887	2,841	2,536	301	4	16,845	14,740	13,510	12,297	11,873	5,619	6,254	19,444

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