Limerick, Cashel, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Limerick, Cashel (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Limerick, Cashel was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 563. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.925°N, 77.600°W.

Population

In 1881, Limerick, Cashel had a population of 563: 298 male and 265 female residents.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Tudor, Wollaston, Limerick, Cashel, 1871 (46.7% share).

Later boundary forms

In a later year, this CSD contained Limerick, 1891 (52.3% of this CSD's polygon).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Limerick, Cashel shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 563 total population, 298 males, 265 females, 195 married persons, 102 families, 98 married males, 97 married females, 5 widowed persons, 3 widowed females, 2 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 363 single persons under 18, 198 single males under 18, 165 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 100 inhabited houses, 100 occupied houses, 1 houses under construction, 1 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 5,438 bushels of potatoes, 3,892 bushels of oats, 3,385 bushels of turnips, 2,109 bushels of rye, 1,439 bushels of spring wheat, 926 acres of hay crops, 778 bushels of corn, 720 bushels of peas and beans, 618 tons of hay, 550 bushels of buckwheat, 306 bushels of other root crops, 274 acres of wheat, 113 bushels of barley, 100 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 67 acres of potatoes, 5 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 563 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON122015 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON122015 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Limerick, Cashel, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/limerick-cashel-on122015-1881/.