Before the Famine
Cutting Corn at Tiglin Farm, Co. Wicklow
Cutting corn with a reaper and binder at Tiglin farm, Co. Wicklow, in 1906.
A Pictorial History of Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy.Cutting Corn at Tiglin Farm, Co. Wicklow
A Pictorial History of Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy.
A Pictorial History of Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy.
Cutting Corn at Tiglin Farm, Co. Wicklow
Cutting corn with a reaper and binder at Tiglin farm, Co. Wicklow, in 1906.
A Pictorial History of Kilcoole, Newcastle, Newtownmountkennedy.The earliest estimate of Wicklow's population was 83,109 in 1812. Almost thirty years later in 1841, it had grown to 126,143, very close to the 2006 total of 126,330.
At this time, the population was very much rural. Out of a total of 50,861 individuals who were returned as having an occupation, by far the largest single category of employment was that of farm labourer.
The biggest towns in terms of population were Arklow (3,254), Bray (3,169), Wicklow (2,794) and Baltinglass (1,928). The county's main sources of non-agricultural employment, apart from domestic service, came from fishing, mining, boot-making, dressmaking and tailoring.
The Great Famine reduced Wicklow's population to 100,000. After that, steady population decline brought it to a low of 58,473 by 1961.