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]
Oldcastle IrlPar Total	7,908	1,260	158	99	1,517	1,219	174	98	1,491	3,008	24	159	301	64	548	26	1	575	29	180	315	70	594	325	162	107	36	215	286	57	628	76	70	124	66	1	3	3	3	2	13	0	6	4	2	1	62	110	853	321	70	652	561	387	223	251	580	703
Oldcastle IrlTown	48	427	71	34	532	416	66	58	540	1,072	21	76	63	22	182	16	0	198	26	93	67	24	210	41	112	57	13	73	94	30	109	11	54	43	44	1	3	3	3	2	13	0	5	4	2	1	51	66	284	131	32	235	255	194	79	103	142	181

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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.