ABSTRACT
(For events affecting Roman Catholics, including the Penal Laws and Catholic Emancipation, see pp. 216–17.) Division Of Population Among Creeds
1800 |
Roman Catholic Irish |
3,150,000 |
Protestant Anglo-Irish |
450,000 |
|
Presbyterians |
900,000 |
|
Roman Catholics paid about £500,000 a year in tithes to Protestant clergy. |