New 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 yesteryear the Irish Gaelic Famine. The map shows population density inward Republic of Ireland for every twelvemonth from 1841 to 2012. It reveals the devastating final result of the famine on the population of Republic of Ireland -an final result as well as then devastating that the population of Republic of Ireland was larger inward the kickoff 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 you lot to explore inward to a greater extent than exceptional the final result of the Irish Gaelic Famine on private parishes. If you lot lead a parish on the map you lot tin destination sentiment details on the parish's pre-famine as well as post-famine population as well as the overall percent autumn inward the population.


The map uses information from a broad release of sources, including the 1841 as well as 1851 census. If you lot click on the 'more information' link inward a Parish's information window you lot tin destination sentiment a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the pre- as well as post-famine population. This includes details on the driblet inward the manful individual as well as woman individual populations.
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