POPULATION.
249
habited houses, and the numbers of population of each of the four provinces and 32 counties of Ireland, after the census returns of April 8, 1861:—
| Provinces and counties | Area in acres | Inhabited houses, 1861 |
Population, 1861. |
| Leinster. | |||
| Carlow | 221,293 | 10,231 | 57,137 |
| Dublin | 226,302 | 48,009 | 410,252 |
| Kildare | 418,415 | 14,596 | 90,946 |
| Kilkenny | 507,254 | 22,221 | 124,515 |
| King's County | 493,019 | 16,365 | 90,043 |
| Longford | 257,222 | 13,030 | 71,694 |
| Louth & Drogheda | 201,396 | 17,654 | 90,713 |
| Meath | 578,247 | 20,722 | 110,373 |
| Queen's County | 424,854 | 16,768 | 90,650 |
| Westmeath | 433,769 | 16,589 | 90,879 |
| Wexford | 573,200 | 26,011 | 143,954 |
| Wicklow | 499,894 | 14,418 | 86,479 |
| Total of Leinster | 4,834,865 | 236,614 | 1,457,635 |
| Munster | |||
| Clare | 768,265 | 28,108 | 166,305 |
| Cork | 1,838,921 | 86,598 | 544,818 |
| Kerry | 1,159,356 | 32,178 | 201,800 |
| Limerick | 662,972 | 33,625 | 217,277 |
| Tipperary | 1,048,969 | 41,316 | 249,106 |
| Waterford | 456,306 | 21,492 | 134,252 |
| Total of Munster | 5,934,789 | 243,317 | 1,513,558 |
| Ulster. | |||
| Antrim | 712,565 | 65,334 | 378,588 |
| Armagh | 312,328 | 35,754 | 190,086 |
| Cavan | 466,260 | 28,326 | 153,906 |
| Donegal | 1,189,979 | 43,173 | 237,395 |
| Down | 609,811 | 57,406 | 299,302 |
| Fermanagh | 417,782 | 19,276 | 105,748 |
| Londonderry | 513,388 | 33,644 | 184,209 |
| Monaghan | 318,733 | 24,164 | 126,482 |
| Tyrone | 778,944 | 44,577 | 238,500 |
| Total of Ulster | 5,319,790 | 351,654 | 1,914,236 |
| Connaught. | |||
| Galway | 1,499,210 | 48,695 | 271,478 |
| Leitrim | 376,212 | 18,691 | 104,744 |
| Mayo | 1,321,282 | 45,625 | 254,796 |
| Roscommon | 585,407 | 28,215 | 157,272 |
| Sligo | 451,086 | 22,394 | 124,845 |
| Total of Connaught | 4,233,197 | 163,620 | 913,135 |
| Total of Ireland | 20,322,641 | 995,205 | 5,798,967 |
