... accounts, population 156). Nonetheless, the correlation between the number of banks in a county and the number of saving banks in the same county on the eve of the famine was 0.524. Aggregate ... time the dust had settled in Ireland, and these do not absolve the Irish banks. They report the size of each bank (defined either by total deposits or the number of account holders) in the United ... On the eve of the famine the province of Connacht, poorest and least urbanised, and about to be devastated by the famine, accounted for 17 per cent of the population but only 4 per cent of the...