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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Mapping The Irish Famine



On Fri Alan Fernihough Tweeted a genuinely shocking animated map which shows how the population of Republic of Ireland was devastated past times the Irish Gaelic Famine. The map shows population density inwards Republic of Ireland for every twelvemonth from 1841 to 2012. It reveals the devastating number of the famine on the population of Republic of Ireland -an number as well as then devastating that the population of Republic of Ireland was larger inwards the showtime one-half of the 19th Century than it fifty-fifty is today.

Alan's website The Irish Gaelic Famine Project provides an interactive map which allows y'all to explore inwards to a greater extent than item the number of the Irish Gaelic Famine on private parishes. If y'all guide a parish on the map y'all tin thought details on the parish's pre-famine as well as post-famine population as well as the overall percent autumn inwards the population.


The map uses information from a broad number of sources, including the 1841 as well as 1851 census. If y'all click on the 'more information' link inwards a Parish's information window y'all tin thought a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the pre- as well as post-famine population. This includes details on the driblet inwards the manful mortal as well as woman mortal populations.