Vision of Ireland | 1851 Census: General

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

Show top level table	Connaught	Show Ireland Dep table

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]
Connaught IProv Total	4,392,043	407,635	60,783	27,384	495,802	408,215	79,709	26,305	514,229	1,010,031	3,004	28,332	106,331	31,586	169,253	7,577	282	177,112	4,226	32,477	113,533	33,383	183,619	116,804	26,431	40,384	9,433	75,857	86,786	11,543	219,868	32,752	10,763	40,961	11,952	704	275	322	200	172	3,756	12	1,362	712	886	74	14,396	31,198	263,458	106,907	36,990	217,544	124,006	64,498	55,714	62,675	266,154	338,672
Galway IrlC	1,565,726	116,116	21,373	9,159	146,648	117,022	26,198	8,029	151,249	297,897	970	8,497	30,335	9,388	49,190	2,143	86	51,419	1,236	9,848	33,206	10,078	54,368	32,625	7,515	14,228	3,230	18,586	29,399	3,153	67,859	11,385	3,077	14,029	3,761	179	62	104	71	66	1,124	2	410	186	312	23	4,529	9,462	81,205	35,436	9,260	62,084	33,640	17,407	12,963	13,858	85,968	106,557
Leitrim IrlC	392,363	47,090	5,411	3,610	56,111	46,078	6,578	3,130	55,786	111,897	225	4,319	11,358	3,011	18,913	816	24	19,753	298	4,688	12,058	3,153	20,197	14,680	2,702	2,815	879	11,277	7,066	975	25,856	1,244	1,211	5,967	1,156	20	31	40	16	6	474	1	168	83	102	3	1,197	3,969	30,211	11,333	3,256	22,158	18,460	8,940	9,225	11,395	22,537	29,558
Mayo IrlC	1,363,882	111,354	15,499	6,411	133,264	113,141	21,854	6,240	141,235	274,499	616	4,964	31,294	10,058	46,932	2,062	71	49,065	785	5,727	32,724	10,474	49,710	34,158	6,636	8,916	2,689	22,371	20,778	3,872	57,519	9,150	2,740	9,034	2,550	67	54	68	62	45	810	3	316	167	213	3	3,233	8,125	67,497	26,662	11,830	62,141	26,741	12,818	13,163	12,633	80,217	102,906
Roscommon IrlC	607,691	72,382	9,891	4,138	86,411	70,273	12,482	4,270	87,025	173,436	506	5,464	18,510	5,059	29,539	1,282	54	30,875	669	6,189	19,693	5,384	31,935	20,193	4,130	7,612	1,336	12,596	16,052	1,951	38,199	5,556	1,800	6,152	2,037	46	60	73	28	12	734	1	236	124	126	0	1,862	4,003	45,082	15,967	7,084	37,937	25,327	12,787	11,693	14,164	40,335	51,479
Sligo IrlC	461,753	53,167	6,170	3,544	62,881	53,734	8,268	3,632	65,634	128,515	385	4,384	13,525	3,848	22,142	1,037	42	23,221	432	4,770	14,125	4,016	23,343	14,696	3,615	5,032	1,195	10,533	10,337	1,278	28,228	4,266	1,558	5,172	1,693	25	47	30	21	22	482	2	191	125	105	3	1,789	4,031	34,114	13,676	3,964	27,719	16,185	9,787	7,481	8,837	32,543	40,495
County of the Town of Galway IrlC	628	7,526	2,439	522	10,487	7,967	4,329	1,004	13,300	23,787	302	704	1,309	222	2,537	237	5	2,779	806	1,255	1,727	278	4,066	452	1,833	1,781	104	494	3,154	314	2,207	1,151	377	607	755	367	21	7	2	21	132	3	41	27	28	42	1,786	1,608	5,349	3,833	1,596	5,505	3,653	2,759	1,189	1,788	4,554	7,677

Click on the triangles for all about a particular number.

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

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.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.