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]
Wexford IrlC Total	573,200	202,033	31,349	27,051	25,515	24,866	23,710	22,238	1,430	42	180,159	143,815	132,666	123,854	111,778	54,935	56,843	358,598
Ballaghkeen North IrlBarony	45,413	-	-	-	1,760	1,687	1,586	1,480	99	9	-	-	8,620	7,665	6,710	3,350	3,360	29,332
Ballaghkeen South IrlBarony	40,987	-	-	-	2,117	1,980	1,903	1,813	87	3	-	-	10,420	9,670	8,910	4,457	4,453	29,927
Bantry IrlBarony	101,599	34,762	5,296	4,494	4,202	4,076	3,893	3,650	236	7	31,957	24,761	22,617	21,412	19,065	9,203	9,862	58,465
Bargy IrlBarony	40,002	13,197	2,229	1,992	1,862	1,784	1,740	1,630	107	3	13,308	10,483	9,525	8,521	7,713	3,907	3,806	27,220
Forth IrlBarony	38,849	24,557	4,303	4,013	3,938	4,076	3,915	3,716	193	6	24,728	21,690	20,784	20,837	19,203	9,111	10,092	32,438
Gorey IrlBarony	81,932	24,281	3,393	2,945	2,740	2,639	2,508	2,318	187	3	20,069	15,856	14,581	12,950	11,479	5,757	5,722	50,520
Scarawalsh IrlBarony	106,651	34,184	5,027	4,240	3,992	3,948	3,726	3,476	246	4	28,738	22,581	20,883	19,770	18,071	8,976	9,095	56,740
Shelburne IrlBarony	51,103	18,712	2,801	2,443	2,218	2,165	2,082	1,944	132	6	16,433	13,213	11,758	10,907	10,009	4,966	5,043	32,329
Shelmaliere East IrlBarony	16,364	6,041	1,050	894	858	809	727	683	44	0	5,711	4,551	3,896	3,515	3,053	1,525	1,528	12,168
Shelmaliere West IrlBarony	50,300	15,050	2,410	2,002	1,828	1,702	1,628	1,528	99	1	13,852	10,477	9,582	8,607	7,565	3,683	3,882	29,460

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