8 | 12.65 | 10.2
1861 | 5,798,967 | 775,311 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 6.0
1871 | 5,412,377 | 386,590 | 6.7 | 13.21 | 9.7
1881 | 5,174,836 | 237,541 | 4.4 | 14.36 | 11.2
1891 | 4,704,750 | 470,086 | 9.1 | 11.65 | 7.8
1901 | 4,458,775 | 245,975 | 5.2 | 12.17 | 11.1
1911 | 4,381,951 | 76,824 | 1.7 | 10.9 | 6.4
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N.B.--This Table is compiled from the Preliminary Reports of the Census
of 1911, which give the population returns only as far back as 1841.
There was, of course, a Census of the United Kingdom as early as 1801,
but the official returns extended at first only to England and
Scotland, and it was not until 1813 that there was any official census
of Ireland. Even then it was far from correct. The first trustworthy
Irish Census was that of 1821. For 1821 and 1831 the Census figures are
given in "Whitaker" as follows:--
1821 6,801,827
1831 7,767,401
It is probable that the apparent rise of the population from 1821 to
1841 amounts to little more than the more correct taking of the Census
among an illiterate population.
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