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3. Vital Statistics {General and Economic) : — 



(a.) Population. — The population of Ballycroy has fluctuated a 

 good deal within the last sixty years, but on the whole has not dimin- 

 ished as much as that of more thickly peopled parts of the country. 

 The Table given below shows the population of the district at each 

 census since 1871 ; also the number of houses inhabited, average 

 number of inhabitants per house, and number of acres per head of the 

 population at each of these periods : — 



Census. 



ij„ 1 »• tr Inhabitants, i Acres per 

 Population. Houses. per house. head. 



1871 

 1881 

 1891 



2041 

 1991 

 2036 



346 5-89 

 324 ( 6-17 

 344 ' .5-92 



25-38 

 26-06 

 25-53 



This Table shows the great sparsity of the population, about 25 

 per square mile. Ballycroy is thus probably the most thinly peopled 

 district of its size in Ireland. 



The region is subdivided into two districts, North and South 

 Ballycroy, the latter of which is the larger, and the more thinly 

 populated. The distribution of population, inhabited houses, and 

 outbuildings between these two districts in 1891, was as given 

 below : 





1 A,^, 



Population. 



Houses. 



Outbuild- 

 ings and 



Farm- 

 steadings. 





1 

 Persons. Males. | Females. 



N. Ballycroy, . 

 S. Ballycroy, . 



20,510 10 

 31,372 2 18 



1191 

 845 



588 

 424 



603 

 421 



197 

 147 



163 

 198 



Totals, . . . 51,882 2 28 



2036 



1012 



1024 



344 



361 



From, this it will be seen that the females slightly exceed the 

 males in number. 



