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This study looks at the residential patterns of Irish immigrants in Savannah on the eve of the American Civil War. It concludes that while some Irish immigrants dispersed randomly about the city, many chose to live in enclaves in which other immigrants from their county or region of Ireland predominated. The data deposited here includes both my Savannah Irish immigrant Database, an Excel file that contains data on every Irish immigrant living in Savannah when the census of 1860 was conducted and attempts to locate them spatially through use of the Savannah city directory of 1860. Also included is a pdf file with fifteen images showing, house-by-house, the birthplace of every adult resident of selected blocks in Savannah's Irish enclaves. Each figure shows the Irish county of birth for each Irish immigrant and the country of birth for all other adults living in the dwelling.
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