Sorry should have shared that the census is head of families, # of males and females and religion.
There was lots of immigration during the 1860's because although the famine did not hit Maghera as hard as some areas of Ireland, it was affected. The 1860's provided a few years of better crops, some of the linen factories went under in the 1860's so less work and less sales in flax. Someone correct me if I am wrong but since the land reforms was this not the time when leases ran out that tenants were being asked to buy their land?
