The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-11
Late Census of Cork County and City.
From the Cork Examiner, Dec, eo.1

30 discouraging as they seem to be in some
other parts of the country, and if they do
not mark an arrest of that downward pro-
gress of the population which was the rule
for some twenty years before, at least they
show less rapid rate of dimnution. The
total population of the county and CITY of
Cork in 1921 was 73O ,444; in the following
ten years it increased to $40, 732 in 1e41 It
was 1854, 1l6, audit is not unlikely that when
the numbers reached their elimination be-
fore the famine, it fell little short of nine
hundred Thousand. In 1851, however, it
had fallen off at GAS, 1903, decrease az com
pared with 1S4l, of 204 $40, but in all pro-
liability lessening of the actual popula-
sion BY something like q quarter of mill
lion. In 1851 there was again decrease
Of TO-. 400, the numbers having fallen to
544 1913; and in 1871 there was still a de-
crease, but this time only of 27,742. The
number of Inhabited houses has undergone
q proportional diminution, having sunk
to 5000 in 1871. In the Parliamentary
borough of Cork the population was in
1861, 1O2 ,226, while in 1871 it was but
100 ,51s, being decrease of about two
thousand. 1t is, however, not unimport-
ant sign of prosperity that the number of
dred, the 1880 in 1861 having risen to
14,651 in 1871. Within the municipal
borough in the same period the inhabitants
had fallen from 90, 121 in 1861 to 75, 642 in
1871, while the houses had increased from
10 ,4s0 to Ii ,O2e. Amongst the Parliamen-
tary boroughs the general tendency to
les ening of the population is shared. The
inhabitants of Bapdon have diminished
from {, 419 in 1861 to 6,131 in 1871, while
the number of houses has fallen from 974
to ea6. Kinsale shows considerable in
crease the numbers rising from 1850 in
1861 to 1850 in 1871. but as the houses
have shrunk from S25 in the former year
to 739 in the latter, while there seem to be
none building, and as we remember that
the returns of census are made on the 2nd
nent increase, but as being caused by the
resort of strangers whom the recent
greatly developed fishing had brought to
the spot. Mallow has fallen off consider
ably in population, but has slightly in
creased the number of houses. In 1861,
700; in 1871 the inhabitants were 4,l65,
and the houses SO4, with one building.
Youghal in 1861, had 6,5l4 inhabitants and
ITO houses in 1871 it had 6,09l inhabi-
tants, and ia houses. In the tale of the
towns, not being municipal boroughs, bat
which exceed 1000 Inhabitants, the num-
bers given for 1861 represent the houses
and population of the towns proper, while
these for 1871 are the townships. Under
this arrangement Clouakilty appears to
have increased in inhabitants having risen
from 3, 100 in 1861 to 3 56S in 1871, and the
number of houses increased from 653 to
700. Fermoy has fallen as regards inhabi-
tauts from 9,O23 to 1888, but the houses
have increased from 7s2 to S34. Middleton
has decreased from 1866 Inhabitants to
3 903, but the houses have increased by the
large number of 1871, that is to say from
55l to 6s2. Queenstown shows an increase
of inhabitants exceeding a thousand, being
from 1897 in 1861 to 10,34O in 1871, while
the number of houses has advanced
from s47 to 1882. Skibbereen has
in n
lation, and has increased in houses. The
inhabitants have receded from 3,7l3 to
1905; the houses were 629 in 1861, 673 in
1871. The town of Bantry has declined,
as regards inhabitants, from 2, 557 to z, 42l,
and the houses diminished from 423 to 374.
Charlevile shows trifiing increase in in
habitants, from 2,469 to 2'4s2, but the
honses are increased by twenty, having
been 456 in 1861 and 476 in 1871. Dun
manway is barely within the limit, and is
still slig htly decreasing. In 1851 the in
houses in 1861 were 400; in 1871, Alb:
Macroom shows a considerable falling of
in both respects, the inhabitants having
decreased from 3,5l3 to 3.l93, and the
houses from 628 to 600. The inhabitants
2,z43; the houses in 1861 were 479; in
1871, 472. Passage West has increased
probably owing to the .docks) from z, 229
to 1889, and the houses are increased
from 4Ol to 429. The number OF persons
in warehouses, hospitals, public lunatic
asylums, prisons, reformatories, orphan
asylums, and other public institutions, on
the End of April, 1871, was II ,457. Of these
there were in barrack 1879. The number
of craft in the different harbors were 1,17I,
and the total number of persons on board
them, British and foreign, were 1858.
AS the decrease in the population has
been mainly caused by emigration, it was
supposed it would considerably alter the re-
lations of the religious professions towards
each other. But this appears not to be
the case. The number of Catholics in the
county of Cork in 1861 was 426,s aud
they were 81 per cent of the population.
In. 1871 the Catholics were reduced to
400,9O5, bat they s6ill were practically in
the same proportion, being 81 per cent.
The vast blue book which contains these
particulars is not, on the whole, crafty
ing document, but it suggests that the
country may be approaching the turning
point of its fortunes, and the decay of
population, which, measured by decimal