CENSUS OF IRELAND FOR THE YEAR 1861.
Derry with 2*5, Ferns with 2*2,and Achonry with DO of an increase.
In the diocese of Connor the increase was under 1.
The proportion has declined in the remaining twenty-six dioceses, the decrease being greatest (34) in the diocese of Kildare, followed by Cork with 2'8, Down with 2*5, Ross with 2*4, Dromore with 2*1, Cloyne with 1*9, Limerick with 1*6, Tuam with 1-3, and by Emly, Killala, and Killaloe with 1*1 each.
In the remaining
ECCEESIAS-•EIGAIi DrasiGNs.
Percentage of Roman Catholics for dioceses the decline was not more than 1 each Diocese.
Percentage of Presby¬ terians for each Diocese.
Percentage of " Other Protestant Dissenters" in each diocese.
PerceBtage of each Religions Profession in 1*834 and 1861.
In nine dioceses, Achonry, Ardfert, Cashel, Cionfert, Emly, Kilfenora, Kilmacduagh, Lismore, and Tuam, the Roman Catholic population exceeded 95 and was under 99 per cent.;
in ten, Ardagh, Cloyne, Elphin, Killala, Killaloe, Limerick, Meath, Ossory, Ross, and Waterford, it exceeded 90 and was under 95 per cent.;
in four, Cork, Ferns, Kildare, and Leighlin, it exceeded 85 and was under 90 per cent.;
in one, Kilmoro, it exceeded 80 and was under 85 per cent.;
in two, Raphoe and Dublin it exceeded 75 and was under 78 per cent.;
in two, Armagh and Clogher, it exceeded 00 and was under 00 per cent; in one, Derry, it exceeded 50 and was under 57 per cent.;
and in three, Connor, Down, and Dromore, it exceeded 20 and was under 39 per cent.
The proportion of Presbyterians to the general population has risen in twenty-two out of the thirty-two dioceses, and has fallen in the remaining ten.
In one diocese only, that of Dublin, does the advance in the percentage amount to 1, and there it is 1-1, having increased since 1834 from 0*5 to 1*0.
The dioceses in which the percentage of Presbyterians has declined, all belong, with the exception of Achonry and Kilfenora, to the Ecclesiastical province of Ulster, the chief seat of the Presbyterian religion in Ireland.
The diocese of Connor is that in which the proportion of the Presbyterian population has most sensibly diminished, and is shown to have fallen from 53*5, or more than a moiety of the total population in 1834, to 47*8, exhibiting a loss of 5*7.
The diocese of Derry comes next in this respect, the percentage of the Presbyterian population having there fallen from 32*2 to 27*0, showing a loss of 5*2.
The Presbyterian population of the diocese of Dromore has suffered in the third degree, from the lowering of its percent¬ age, which is found to have sunk from 36 8 to 32*4, and thus shows a loss of 4*4.
Raphoe shows the next most considerable fall in the percentage of the Presbyterian population, which has there dropped since 1834 from 13*9 to 10*4, being thus diminished by 3"5.
In Armagh diocese the loss is % the difference between 16'9 and 14*9; and in the diocese of Down 1*4, the difference between 52*0 in 1834, and 51*2 in 1861; in the dioceses of Kilmore and Achonry the loss is under 1.
In the diocese of Down, the Presbyterians exceeded 51 and were under 52 per cent.;
in Connor, they exceeded 47 and were under 48 per cent.;
in Dromore, they exceeded 32 and were under 33 per cent.;
in the diocese of Derry they were 27 per cent.;
in two dioceses, Raphoe and Armagh, they exceeded 10 and were under 15 per cent.;
in Clogher, they exceeded 8 and were under 9 per cent.;
in Kilmore, they exceeded 2 and were under 3 per cent.;
in Dublin, they exceeded 1 and were under 2 per cent.;
in the twTenty-three dioceses their percentage was under 1.
The group included under the head of " Other Protestant Dissenters," and comprising Methodists, Independents, Baptists, Society of Friends, and All other Persuasions, although forming only a small section of the population, has increased its percentage since the year 1834, from 0*3 to D4.
This increase is due, in a very large measure, to the fact already noticed at page 5 of this Report, that in 1834 Wesleyan Methodists wore enumerated as belonging to the Established Church, whereas, in the present Census they have been classed under a distinct head.
If the considerable number of 45,399 Wesleyan Metho-distswere now to be deducted from the total of "Other Protestant Dissenters" (76,061), the increase in the percentage would be only 0*2; while, if the Wesleyan Methodists were now to be counted in with the members of the Established Church, the increase in the ratio of population, between 1834 and 1861, in communion with the latter body, would be raised from 1*2 to 2*0 per cent.
In 1834 the ratio of " Other Protestant Dis¬ senters" nowhere amounted to 2*0, and in two dioceses only, those of Connor and Down, did it^ exceed or amount to 1-0.
In 1801 the percentage of " Other Protestant Dissenters"' had risen from 1*7 to 47 in the diocese of Connor, from 0-5 to 3-4 in the diocese of Dro¬ more, from 1-8 to 2*9 in the diocese of Down, from 0*7 to 2*1 in the diocese of Armagh, from -0 to 2*0 in Clogher diocese, from 0*5 to 2*0 in Derry, from 0-2 to 1*8 in Cork, from 0-9 to 1*8 in Waterford, from 0*4 to DO in Dublin, from *0 to 1*5 in Raphoe, and from 0'1 to 1*3 in Kilmore.
In the remaining-dioceses the increase has been under !»
Upon |he whole, the percentage of members of the lMablishe4 Church has been increased from 10*7, in 18,34 to 11-9 in 1861, an advance of 1*2; the proportion of Roiw Catholics has receded from 80-9 in 1834 to 77*7 in 1861, a decline of 3*2; the proportion of.
Presbyterians has advanced from 8*1 in 1R34 to 9*0 in 1861, an increase of 0*9; -"All other Protestant Dissenters" show an increase from 0*3 to 1*4, or an advance of 1*1 since 1834; and .the
Protestant population generally an increase from 10 1 to 22*3, or 3*2.
remaining
