Mapping The Irish Famine
Here's the development of Irish Gaelic Population density 1841->2002 on a DED level. You tin flame run across the devastating comport on of the Famine, the gradual thinning of the rural population together with the late-20th c. suburban sprawl #history #ireland #rstats pic.twitter.com/SOwSyHvPIN— Alan Fernihough (@DiffusePrioR) March 9, 2018
On Fri Alan Fernihough Tweeted a really shocking animated map which shows how the population of Republic of Ireland was devastated past times the Irish Gaelic Famine. The map shows population density inward Republic of Ireland for every twelvemonth from 1841 to 2012. It reveals the devastating upshot of the famine on the population of Republic of Ireland -an upshot together with therefore devastating that the population of Republic of Ireland was larger inward the offset 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 upshot of the Irish Gaelic Famine on private parishes. If you lot conduct a parish on the map you lot tin flame persuasion details on the parish's pre-famine together with post-famine population together with the overall percent autumn inward the population.
The map uses information from a broad seat out of sources, including the 1841 together with 1851 census. If you lot click on the 'more information' link inward a Parish's information window you lot tin flame persuasion a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown of the pre- together with post-famine population. This includes details on the drib inward the manly mortal together with woman mortal populations.