There are some instantly apparent facts that emerge from these statistics, such as the decade in which a place lost most of its population, and also what surrounding townlands gained population while other townlands were being cleared out. This is very apparent for my family's townland of Clashduff which lost more than 75 per cent of its population with the neighboring townland of Gortadroma gaining population. It is also possible to see which places had residences torn down as a cause of population loss, and which places retained structures but lost population. It's all quantified, a chilling reminder of how very deliberate the process was. In another posting, I will provide an online publication which has personal testimony of tenants watching their neighbors became these population statistics during the famine years.
Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: Census of 1871
Vol. II Province of Munster No. 1 County of Clare
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or
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pdf reached via this:
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Moyree Commons in the Parish of Ruan appears on p. 45. On p. 99 a handy barony-level table provides statistics, like the
one for Inchiquin showing that between the censuses of 1841 and '51, one-third of its population was lost.
Sharon Carberry
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