Irish Poor Law Union and Barony Boundaries, 1841-1871

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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.

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The boundaries that comprise this dataset were the main boundaries used to publish census data between 1841 and 1871. The barony boundaries were used for the population censuses, the Poor Law Union boundaries were used for the agricultural censuses, the Poor Law and a variety of other purposes.

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4999-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=39cdfacd45f2e7aff05f8e498a51aa41be483e06e8ae6623f8413a70c5d62bf9
Provenance
Creator Gregory, I., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography; Ell, P., Queen's University of Belfast, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2004
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright Gregory, I.,University of Portsmouth. Ell, P.,Queen's University of Belfast.; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Language English
Resource Type Text; Numeric; GIS spatial data
Discipline History; Humanities; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Ireland