Irish Poor Law Union and Barony Boundaries, 1841-1871

The project from which this dataset is derived aimed to explore methods of analysing historical census data over time and space using the demographic impacts of the Irish famine of the late 1840s as a case study. It covered the period from 1841 – 1871 using a variety of demographic data from the Database of Irish Historic Statistics. The GIS data that comprises this study represent the administrative boundaries that the demographic data refer to.<br> <br>