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Eighteenth-Century Irish Population: New Perspectives from Old Sources

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  • Daultrey, Stuart
  • Dickson, David
  • Gráda, Cormac Ó

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The lack of other data has made fiscally motivated house counts the main basis of pre-censal Irish population estimates in the past. The source is potentially treacherous: in this paper spatial autocorrelation analysis of house counts at the county level is used to monitor its reliability over time. The new house totals which emerge, coupled with new estimates of mean household size, yield a different picture of aggregate and provincial population change between 1700 and 1821 than suggested in Connell's classic work. The final section of the paper suggests an interpretation of population change consistent with our revised figures.

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  • Daultrey, Stuart & Dickson, David & Gráda, Cormac Ó, 1981. "Eighteenth-Century Irish Population: New Perspectives from Old Sources," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(3), pages 601-628, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:41:y:1981:i:03:p:601-628_04
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    1. Kennedy, Liam & Solar, Peter M., 2019. "The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland," QUCEH Working Paper Series 2019-06, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
    2. Liam Brunt & Cecilia García-Peñalosa, 2022. "Urbanisation and the Onset of Modern Economic Growth," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(642), pages 512-545.

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