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In 1851, as the Great Famine was ending, the population of Ireland had dropped to 6.5 million people. The Famine and the resulting Irish diaspora had a dramatic effect on population; by 1891, Ireland's population had slipped under five million and by 1931, it had dropped to just over four million. It stayed around this level until the 1960s ...
[5] [6] The population of Ireland on the eve of the famine was about 8.5 million; by 1901, it was just 4.4 million. [7] During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million more fled the country , [ 8 ] causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% between 1841 and 1871, with some towns' populations falling by ...
The census is of particular note in Ireland as it was taken shortly before the Great Famine (1845-1852), which resulted in over 1 million deaths and spurred decades of mass emigration. The total population of the island in 1841 was estimated to be just under 8.2 million, which remains the highest recorded population Ireland has ever had.
At its peak, Ireland's population density was similar to that of England and continental Europe. This changed dramatically with the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, which led to mass starvation and consequent mass emigration. In the area covering the present day Republic of Ireland, the population reached about 6.5 million in the mid-1840s ...
The worst of these was the Great Irish Famine (1845–1851), in which about one million people died and another million emigrated. [4] The economic problems of most Irish people were in part the result of the small size of their landholdings and a large increase in the population in the years before the famine. [5]
The combination of warfare, famine and plague caused a huge mortality among the Irish population. William Petty estimated (in the 1655–56 Down Survey ) that the death toll of the wars in Ireland since 1641 was over 618,000 people, or about 40% of the country's pre-war population.
The Céide Fields [11] [12] [13] is an archaeological site on the north County Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about 7 kilometres northwest of Ballycastle, and the site is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland and contains the oldest known field systems in the world.
The population continued to fall until 1961; County Leitrim was the final Irish county to record a population increase post-famine, in 2006. The 19th and early 20th centuries saw the rise of modern Irish nationalism, primarily among the Roman Catholic population. The pre-eminent Irish political figure after the Union was Daniel O'Connell.