Vision of Ireland | 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]
Wicklow IrlC Total	499,822	126,143	16,526	15,129	14,783	13,977	13,364	12,203	1,140	21	98,979	86,451	78,697	70,386	62,136	31,054	31,082	268,602
Arklow IrlBarony	67,266	25,263	3,724	3,632	3,626	3,279	3,107	2,853	248	6	21,922	20,444	18,507	15,671	13,432	6,347	7,085	57,449
Ballinacor North IrlBarony	74,114	10,196	1,300	1,268	1,168	1,132	1,035	906	126	3	9,469	8,192	6,992	6,000	4,775	2,519	2,256	15,181
Ballinacor South IrlBarony	78,277	15,491	1,961	1,600	1,481	1,390	1,293	1,204	87	2	11,045	8,806	8,015	7,128	6,117	3,169	2,948	20,605
Newcastle IrlBarony	52,042	16,444	2,232	2,082	1,939	1,763	1,691	1,517	171	3	12,793	11,760	9,714	8,496	7,550	3,815	3,735	43,364
Rathdown IrlBarony	32,866	11,423	1,734	1,783	1,939	2,042	2,090	1,786	302	2	9,499	9,614	10,082	9,891	9,893	4,566	5,327	48,583
Shillelagh IrlBarony	44,392	14,057	1,685	1,368	1,278	1,219	1,163	1,123	37	3	10,326	7,773	7,138	6,656	6,076	3,139	2,937	22,980
Talbotstown Lower IrlBarony	88,355	15,444	1,911	1,687	1,650	1,575	1,499	1,412	87	0	11,438	9,916	9,101	8,222	7,108	3,761	3,347	28,107
Talbotstown Upper IrlBarony	62,511	17,825	1,979	1,709	1,702	1,577	1,486	1,402	82	2	12,487	9,946	9,148	8,322	7,185	3,738	3,447	32,334

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