1861 Census of Ireland, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1861. Part I. Area, Population and Number of Houses, by Townlands and Electoral Divisions., Table [1] : " Area, population and number of houses".

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click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area (Acres) [1]	Population					Houses
			In 1841	In 1851	In 1861			In 1841	In 1851	In 1861
			Persons [2]	Persons [3]	Males [4]	Females [5]	Persons [6]	Number [7]	Number [8]	Inhabited [9]	Uninhabited [10]	Building [11]	Total [12]
Down IrlC Total		609,811	360,622	319,972	140,688	158,614	299,302	68,722	62,317	57,406	3,071	130	60,607
Belfast IrlCorpTown		5,637	77,622	103,067	55,842	65,760	121,602	13,249	15,446	18,595	1,541	54	20,190
Ards Lower IrlBarony		38,462	29,911	28,516	12,289	15,169	27,458	5,929	5,699	5,381	370	17	5,768
Ards Upper IrlBarony		29,697	16,964	15,650	6,261	7,727	13,988	3,418	3,197	2,804	134	2	2,940
Castlereagh Lower IrlBarony		51,453	27,567	25,315	11,681	13,694	25,375	5,297	4,901	4,690	360	27	5,077
Castlereagh Upper IrlBarony		53,886	31,428	27,950	12,653	14,050	26,703	6,035	5,683	5,162	294	8	5,464
Dufferin IrlBarony		17,208	9,410	7,504	3,422	4,299	7,721	1,694	1,454	1,406	59	1	1,466
Iveagh Lower Lower Half IrlBarony		46,058	30,459	26,374	12,674	13,258	25,932	5,796	4,979	4,793	145	4	4,942
Iveagh Lower Upper Half IrlBarony		47,539	39,687	38,891	18,161	18,860	37,021	6,854	6,634	6,618	238	5	6,861
Iveagh Upper Lower Half IrlBarony		96,317	47,024	39,813	17,487	19,367	36,854	9,259	8,196	7,470	377	12	7,859
Iveagh Upper Upper Half IrlBarony		63,250	40,325	35,136	14,867	16,652	31,519	7,890	7,077	6,227	435	20	6,682
Kinelarty IrlBarony		40,323	20,895	17,050	7,350	8,244	15,594	3,857	3,295	3,036	120	1	3,157
Lecale Lower IrlBarony		30,921	12,962	10,467	4,279	4,805	9,084	2,494	2,153	1,884	110	9	2,003
Lecale Upper IrlBarony		30,672	18,814	15,638	6,451	7,582	14,033	3,603	3,109	2,744	137	17	2,898
Newry Lordship Of IrlBarony		16,142	18,907	17,843	7,028	7,922	14,950	3,610	3,256	2,832	176	1	3,009
Mourne IrlBarony		47,883	16,269	13,825	6,085	6,985	13,070	2,986	2,684	2,359	116	6	2,481

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 also includes Poor Law and General Valuations for each area.

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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.

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