Vision of Britain | 1851 Census: General

1851 Census of Ireland, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Part VI. General Report., Table 1 : " General Table.".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	AREA in Statute Acres. [1]	Persons									Houses								Families					Occupations																													Education
		Males				Females				TOTAL NUMBER OF MALES AND FEMALES. [10]	Inhabited					UNINHABITED.		TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSES. [18]	Residing in				TOTAL NUMBER OF FAMILIES. [23]	Families, classified according to their							Persons (Fifteen Years old and upwards)																						Persons (Five Years old and upwards)
		Heads of Families and their Children. [2]	Visitors. [3]	Servants. [4]	TOTAL NUMBER OF MALES. [5]	Heads of Families and their Children. [6]	Visitors. [7]	Servants. [8]	TOTAL NUMBER OF FEMALES. [9]		1st Class. [11]	2nd Class. [12]	3rd Class. [13]	4th Class. [14]	TOTAL INHABITED. [15]	Built. [16]	Building. [17]		1st Class Houses. [19]	2nd Class Houses. [20]	3rd Class Houses. [21]	4th Class Houses. [22]		Pursuits, as chiefly employed in			Means, as chiefly dependent on				Classified as ministering to Physical Wants										Classified as ministering to Moral Wants						Unclassified		TOTAL		Number not having specified Occupations		Who can Read and Write		Who can Read only		Who can neither Read nor Write
																								Agriculture. [24]	Manufactures, Trade, &c. [25]	Other pursuits. [26]	Vested means, Professions, &c. [27]	The direction of labour. [28]	Their own manual labour. [29]	Means not specified. [30]	Food		Clothing		Lodging, &c		Health		Charity		Justice		Education		Religion		Male. [47]	Female. [48]	Male. [49]	Female. [50]	Male. [51]	Female. [52]	Male. [53]	Female. [54]	Male. [55]	Female. [56]	Male. [57]	Female. [58]
																								Agriculture. [24]	Manufactures, Trade, &c. [25]	Other pursuits. [26]	Vested means, Professions, &c. [27]	The direction of labour. [28]	Their own manual labour. [29]	Means not specified. [30]	Male. [31]	Female. [32]	Male. [33]	Female. [34]	Male. [35]	Female. [36]	Male. [37]	Female. [38]	Male. [39]	Female. [40]	Male. [41]	Female. [42]	Male. [43]	Female. [44]	Male. [45]	Female. [46]	Male. [47]	Female. [48]	Male. [49]	Female. [50]	Male. [51]	Female. [52]	Male. [53]	Female. [54]	Male. [55]	Female. [56]	Male. [57]	Female. [58]
Offaly IrlC Total	493,985	43,869	7,378	4,037	55,284	43,899	9,169	3,724	56,792	112,076	838	5,636	10,223	2,096	18,793	1,238	15	20,046	996	6,352	11,229	2,297	20,874	12,429	3,842	4,603	1,496	6,592	10,871	1,915	24,789	3,275	1,559	4,480	1,950	59	48	59	24	19	563	2	170	118	117	22	2,201	4,452	31,421	12,486	3,779	24,778	20,686	13,453	9,408	14,211	19,822	23,924
Ballyboy IrlBarony	32,407	2,537	280	279	3,096	2,524	385	185	3,094	6,190	38	342	619	133	1,132	71	0	1,203	40	372	670	146	1,228	733	183	312	80	365	683	100	1,425	161	87	146	97	4	2	3	0	0	39	0	6	6	4	0	86	240	1,746	560	211	1,487	1,099	688	447	741	1,234	1,357
Ballybritt IrlBarony	53,994	5,919	1,389	546	7,854	6,153	1,911	712	8,776	16,630	207	866	1,313	162	2,548	189	3	2,740	245	1,034	1,553	182	3,014	1,415	750	849	242	818	1,577	377	2,831	471	322	618	388	8	15	13	6	1	100	0	38	30	21	14	544	914	4,265	2,069	606	3,752	3,251	2,621	1,212	1,944	2,588	3,444
Ballycowan IrlBarony	38,652	5,429	1,659	506	7,594	5,657	2,036	502	8,195	15,789	116	961	1,127	244	2,448	165	3	2,616	167	1,127	1,268	298	2,860	1,468	640	752	137	990	1,405	328	2,965	387	300	438	361	6	6	11	7	17	57	2	29	20	14	7	503	699	4,242	1,587	587	3,814	2,729	1,812	1,538	2,234	2,629	3,456
Clonlisk IrlBarony	49,054	4,956	620	357	5,933	4,931	727	370	6,028	11,961	81	661	1,072	231	2,045	140	4	2,189	90	713	1,181	250	2,234	1,564	274	396	162	657	1,260	155	2,787	352	84	233	174	5	3	6	2	0	74	0	17	16	14	0	146	366	3,301	978	356	2,976	2,310	1,545	999	1,670	2,028	2,272
Coolestown IrlBarony	47,882	3,146	819	336	4,301	3,074	1,021	306	4,401	8,702	81	281	750	144	1,256	69	1	1,326	106	387	798	152	1,443	801	333	309	136	417	793	97	1,852	238	153	482	167	8	5	6	4	1	34	0	11	8	11	1	159	350	2,396	1,094	379	1,761	1,651	1,280	729	1,072	1,507	1,635
Eglish IrlBarony	28,704	1,821	236	202	2,259	1,922	266	126	2,314	4,573	25	202	443	73	743	24	0	767	27	213	482	77	799	633	79	87	84	285	392	38	1,198	145	19	214	41	3	0	1	0	0	51	0	5	6	3	0	33	157	1,350	526	108	916	913	567	337	556	799	942
Garrycastle IrlBarony	103,879	8,905	1,082	668	10,655	8,769	1,178	608	10,555	21,210	113	1,284	2,001	324	3,722	285	0	4,007	133	1,412	2,201	361	4,107	2,603	696	808	191	1,594	1,915	407	4,902	606	238	1,007	323	7	8	7	1	0	134	0	28	13	19	0	307	765	5,960	2,405	752	4,261	3,601	1,770	1,710	2,286	4,296	5,442
Geashill IrlBarony	30,874	2,633	263	302	3,198	2,521	368	217	3,106	6,304	32	227	698	169	1,126	62	0	1,188	33	240	741	185	1,199	809	174	216	97	363	636	103	1,675	286	53	250	73	3	1	2	1	0	12	0	9	3	6	0	59	213	1,889	757	166	1,310	1,327	859	600	922	941	1,034
Kilcoursey IrlBarony	19,288	2,670	296	167	3,133	2,585	377	166	3,128	6,261	43	330	701	118	1,192	81	1	1,274	43	346	776	124	1,289	686	252	351	72	366	741	110	1,431	187	121	201	98	2	3	0	1	0	21	0	5	5	13	0	154	199	1,847	594	206	1,514	1,056	569	548	811	1,243	1,499
Philipstown Lower IrlBarony	30,692	2,191	269	217	2,677	2,166	294	183	2,643	5,320	45	214	522	189	970	83	1	1,054	52	226	546	199	1,023	610	171	242	89	329	536	69	1,384	156	55	374	89	2	3	4	1	0	19	0	10	6	5	0	88	220	1,654	762	149	1,041	1,088	646	458	749	894	1,012
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony	37,097	2,341	294	249	2,884	2,322	411	224	2,957	5,841	42	167	659	198	1,066	56	2	1,124	45	177	687	206	1,115	741	195	179	121	310	589	95	1,440	146	87	367	90	11	1	5	1	0	14	0	9	1	4	0	80	235	1,726	765	211	1,279	1,067	766	546	866	1,007	1,071
Warrenstown IrlBarony	21,462	1,321	171	208	1,700	1,275	195	125	1,595	3,295	15	101	318	111	545	13	0	558	15	105	326	117	563	366	95	102	85	98	344	36	899	140	40	150	49	0	1	1	0	0	8	0	3	4	3	0	42	94	1,045	389	48	667	594	330	284	360	656	760

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Offaly IrlC:

Rate	Date
% Class 4 (1 Room Mud Huts)	1851
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1851
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1851

Comments:

1	Parishes were often divided between different Baronies, and Baronies were sometimes divided between different Counties, but this reconstruction always lists the totals for whole Parishes or Baronies. The original table also sometimes lists separate counts for 'Towns' and the remainders of Parishes, but here again we list only Parish totals.
2	The totals for Baronies, Counties etc include counts for persons in "Public Institutions", who were separately listed in the original table, and are not included within the parish counts.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

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