Vision of Ireland | 1861 Census: Population summary

1861 Census of Ireland, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1861. Part I. Area, Population and Number of Houses, by Townlands and Electoral Divisions., Table [1] : " Area, population and number of houses".

List for top level	Offaly	List for Ireland Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area (Acres) [1]	Population					Houses
		In 1841	In 1851	In 1861			In 1841	In 1851	In 1861
		Persons [2]	Persons [3]	Males [4]	Females [5]	Persons [6]	Number [7]	Number [8]	Inhabited [9]	Uninhabited [10]	Building [11]	Total [12]
Offaly IrlC Total	493,019	146,857	112,080	45,513	44,530	90,043	25,584	20,042	16,365	640	41	17,046
Ballyboy IrlBarony	32,407	9,174	6,190	2,517	2,523	5,040	1,642	1,203	1,004	52	3	1,059
Ballybritt IrlBarony	53,994	19,460	16,632	7,364	6,846	14,210	3,346	2,740	2,285	97	14	2,396
Ballycowan IrlBarony	38,651	18,320	15,789	6,246	6,304	12,550	3,264	2,616	2,211	72	3	2,286
Clonlisk IrlBarony	49,054	17,113	11,963	4,672	4,650	9,322	2,963	2,189	1,723	78	4	1,805
Coolestown IrlBarony	47,882	9,488	8,702	3,420	3,426	6,846	1,557	1,326	1,135	39	2	1,176
Eglish IrlBarony	28,704	6,560	4,573	1,571	1,499	3,070	1,113	767	551	9	1	561
Garrycastle IrlBarony	102,913	30,389	21,210	8,461	8,187	16,648	5,281	4,007	3,169	105	0	3,274
Geashill IrlBarony	30,874	8,261	6,304	2,344	2,218	4,562	1,467	1,188	848	48	2	898
Kilcoursey IrlBarony	19,288	9,204	6,261	2,570	2,569	5,139	1,709	1,270	1,063	56	3	1,122
Philipstown Lower IrlBarony	30,692	7,223	5,320	2,535	2,352	4,887	1,232	1,054	907	42	5	954
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony	37,097	7,452	5,841	2,455	2,593	5,048	1,335	1,124	998	28	3	1,029
Warrenstown IrlBarony	21,462	4,213	3,295	1,358	1,363	2,721	675	558	471	14	1	486

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 original table lists areas in Acres, Rods and Perches, but they have been converted here into decimal acres.
3	The original table also includes Poor Law and General Valuations for each area.

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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.