There have been almost no changes whatsoever since 1872 to the boundaries of the six counties which now make up Northern Ireland. This makes some of the comparisons very easy to establish. But the 'Troubles' have added their own small cloud to this exercise. There was a great reluctance on the part of anybody to name or indicate the location of the residual estates or of the modern landowners, for fear of potential agitation against the landowners. This is one reason why any analysis inevitably flows back to what was set out in the 1872 Return. While there is some evidence that the Land Commission established by the Imperial authorities in London in the 1880s redistributed Northern Irish land much as it did in what later became the Republic, there is a need to establish whether that process ceased at partition and to establish the economic consequences. The significant changes are the same as those which occurred in most other parts of the United Kingdom; the population has grown and most of that growth has been concentrated in urban areas around Belfast, Derry and other towns and cities

Antrim Armagh

Down Fermanagh

Londonderry(Derry) Tyrone