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.".

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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]
Leinster IProv Total	4,876,211	640,614	108,938	63,985	813,537	657,962	129,813	71,426	859,201	1,672,738	23,694	85,181	118,934	30,203	258,012	17,590	593	276,195	47,999	109,767	129,402	32,911	320,079	145,913	84,500	89,666	24,442	91,411	177,187	27,039	294,406	39,783	32,301	66,545	49,416	2,686	1,636	1,429	232	299	10,597	55	2,948	2,816	2,146	741	73,851	103,371	467,533	217,725	54,132	361,688	338,751	255,950	129,586	194,350	260,926	327,446
Carlow IrlC	221,342	26,089	4,065	2,862	33,016	26,826	5,492	2,744	35,062	68,078	563	4,202	5,093	1,318	11,176	698	13	11,887	652	4,770	5,611	1,473	12,506	7,120	2,575	2,811	1,148	3,436	7,011	911	14,691	2,466	938	2,565	1,599	55	30	53	13	27	281	1	109	100	85	52	1,656	4,217	19,402	9,536	2,014	14,101	13,549	10,151	6,186	9,493	9,997	12,268
Dublin IrlC	222,714	54,468	9,164	4,473	68,105	57,643	10,540	10,490	78,673	146,778	3,411	10,762	8,032	1,478	23,683	2,252	154	26,089	4,356	13,905	8,763	1,576	28,600	9,186	8,482	10,932	2,410	6,520	16,704	2,966	18,407	1,922	1,994	4,050	4,890	393	255	139	19	21	2,201	3	391	542	371	258	8,904	14,412	37,432	21,740	5,620	32,715	33,000	34,660	9,834	15,448	17,223	20,715
Kildare IrlC	418,436	37,098	6,517	4,913	48,528	36,970	6,664	3,561	47,195	95,723	835	4,010	8,326	2,652	15,823	949	41	16,813	956	4,556	8,949	2,940	17,401	9,868	3,430	4,103	1,750	4,170	10,252	1,229	21,114	1,911	1,283	2,976	2,127	46	49	63	9	20	342	2	170	121	114	38	3,032	4,988	28,240	10,165	3,424	21,069	19,782	13,982	8,412	11,017	15,509	17,399
Kilkenny IrlC	508,811	54,296	7,152	6,126	67,574	56,712	9,353	5,134	71,199	138,773	801	8,707	11,311	2,551	23,370	1,494	26	24,890	929	9,323	12,046	2,689	24,987	15,733	3,974	5,280	2,257	8,818	11,814	2,098	29,861	5,780	1,405	3,108	2,883	8	34	95	16	8	547	0	220	119	144	23	2,488	6,564	37,598	15,705	4,781	31,519	24,642	14,514	11,562	16,839	24,381	33,233
Offaly IrlC	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
Longford IrlC	269,409	33,602	4,719	2,720	41,041	33,065	5,894	2,348	41,307	82,348	318	4,132	7,713	1,659	13,822	827	26	14,675	400	4,506	8,458	1,843	15,207	9,420	2,573	3,214	746	6,307	6,816	1,338	18,833	1,985	1,313	4,155	1,208	45	32	31	9	8	316	2	135	74	79	4	1,117	3,046	23,042	9,350	2,469	16,859	14,898	7,808	6,808	10,078	15,446	19,585
Louth IrlC	201,409	36,951	4,699	2,660	44,310	37,464	6,029	3,012	46,505	90,815	607	3,786	9,620	2,477	16,490	1,407	26	17,923	696	4,319	10,207	2,649	17,871	9,548	4,131	4,192	805	5,253	10,409	1,404	17,434	2,702	2,421	4,233	1,952	54	37	41	10	2	348	4	116	98	94	12	2,692	3,881	25,104	11,027	2,343	19,277	14,438	8,364	7,069	8,608	18,187	25,028
Meath IrlC	579,899	55,588	9,547	5,678	70,813	53,896	10,945	5,094	69,935	140,748	950	4,573	13,338	5,183	24,044	1,239	37	25,320	1,052	4,961	14,112	5,562	25,687	16,256	4,428	5,003	2,342	6,576	14,869	1,900	32,280	2,736	2,069	5,356	2,606	46	53	55	23	15	550	0	182	137	164	44	2,682	5,868	40,609	14,257	4,457	31,442	24,749	14,939	12,449	14,788	26,832	33,609
Laoighis IrlC	424,854	43,784	7,241	4,531	55,556	43,895	8,087	4,126	56,108	111,664	783	4,975	10,559	2,888	19,205	1,222	25	20,452	894	5,499	11,435	3,136	20,964	12,971	3,625	4,368	1,557	6,265	11,367	1,775	24,317	2,582	1,595	2,896	2,395	26	61	85	16	10	492	1	190	142	115	26	2,702	4,999	31,883	10,767	3,702	26,878	21,620	15,776	10,299	14,830	18,470	20,589
Westmeath IrlC	453,468	44,530	7,112	4,453	56,095	43,632	7,928	3,752	55,312	111,407	747	5,396	10,011	2,584	18,738	846	16	19,600	891	6,166	11,151	2,887	21,095	12,265	3,989	4,841	1,599	6,179	11,683	1,634	23,974	2,223	1,636	5,107	2,326	41	48	40	16	3	411	5	163	126	126	14	3,483	5,576	32,183	13,135	3,621	23,063	19,813	11,219	9,279	12,589	21,623	26,465
Wexford IrlC	576,588	68,295	10,190	8,453	86,938	71,949	14,306	6,965	93,220	180,158	1,689	11,373	13,616	2,846	29,524	1,777	48	31,349	1,957	13,333	14,852	3,075	33,217	19,227	7,464	6,526	2,757	10,930	17,638	1,892	38,040	5,877	3,187	8,202	4,107	143	66	172	27	12	557	4	268	193	208	58	4,740	10,359	51,200	25,020	4,686	38,217	34,101	23,925	14,962	25,956	28,679	34,430
Wicklow IrlC	500,178	38,669	6,822	4,739	50,230	37,647	7,232	3,870	48,749	98,979	750	6,201	6,807	1,777	15,535	967	24	16,526	897	6,794	7,461	1,973	17,125	9,900	3,308	3,917	2,127	4,845	9,279	874	21,019	2,427	1,070	2,329	3,084	104	51	61	18	4	342	5	181	146	95	26	2,706	5,130	28,566	10,232	3,247	21,179	19,750	15,224	8,411	11,256	16,563	17,101
County of the City of Dublin IrlC	36,967	91,099	20,507	7,575	119,181	100,563	23,393	15,232	139,188	258,369	10,827	9,693	1,680	44	22,244	1,918	122	24,284	32,448	22,819	2,002	49	57,318	625	28,899	27,794	3,252	14,177	33,845	6,044	7,297	2,794	9,820	15,026	16,735	1,616	833	496	17	146	3,432	21	589	835	386	103	32,496	26,998	71,605	48,035	8,535	52,800	70,950	67,076	11,835	24,202	23,045	34,806
County of the City of Kilkenny IrlC	921	5,791	2,840	288	8,919	6,707	3,575	774	11,056	19,975	252	997	1,258	77	2,584	401	3	2,988	422	1,542	1,604	96	3,664	734	1,462	1,468	124	714	2,111	715	1,706	933	684	561	774	12	21	28	13	4	137	4	43	34	24	19	1,204	1,933	4,606	3,528	981	4,287	3,664	2,803	1,803	2,937	2,450	4,357
County of the Town of Drogheda IrlC	497	6,485	985	477	7,947	7,094	1,206	600	8,900	16,847	323	738	1,347	573	2,981	355	17	3,353	453	922	1,522	666	3,563	631	2,318	614	72	629	2,518	344	644	170	1,327	1,501	780	38	18	11	2	0	78	1	21	31	24	42	1,748	948	4,642	2,742	473	3,504	3,109	2,056	1,269	2,098	2,699	3,937

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Leinster 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.

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