Ulster Province through time | Historical Statistics on Housing

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Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)

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House Class (Ireland)	1841	1851	1861
First Class	7,471	11,104	13,420
Second Class	101,437	128,872	146,742
Third Class	179,745	188,296	176,813
Fourth Class	125,898	23,613	14,680

Date	Source
1841	1841 Census of Ireland, Report, Table 1 , 'General table'
1851	1851 Census of Ireland, General, Table 1 , 'General Table.'
1861	1861 Census of Ireland, General, Table 1 , 'Showing by baronies, parishes, and towns, the area, population, number of houses and families, occupations, religious profusions, and education'

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Class of House. The early Irish censuses included this simple quality grading of inhabited houses, Class I being the best and class IV being one-room mud huts.

Ulster Province : Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)

Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)