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

Show top level table	Offaly West	Show Kildare IrlC 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]
																																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]
Offaly West IrlBarony Total		40,603	3,648	380	469	4,497	3,662	426	345	4,433	8,930	62	262	914	303	1,541	71	4	1,616	87	317	1,015	349	1,768	971	298	499	148	522	951	147	2,082	210	98	329	182	7	4	8	0	0	27	0	8	9	11	1	250	439	2,662	1,003	322	1,970	1,822	1,260	865	1,198	1,366	1,513
Nurney IrlPar		3,928	475	45	49	569	520	46	37	603	1,172	5	26	121	59	211	10	1	222	5	27	136	74	242	118	51	73	19	39	162	22	252	15	18	42	20	1	1	0	0	0	6	0	4	2	0	0	27	58	328	118	40	270	215	167	121	142	171	228
Fontstown IrlPar		5,279	368	34	58	460	348	38	20	406	866	3	27	94	26	150	1	0	151	3	28	106	31	168	112	25	31	24	49	77	18	241	19	9	35	11	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	7	33	272	90	27	184	200	134	59	79	157	167
Ballysax IrlPar		7,208	334	46	74	454	354	38	36	428	882	6	23	78	41	148	6	0	154	6	24	79	43	152	108	15	29	23	37	83	9	176	8	4	40	12	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	1	0	41	37	238	86	36	199	175	142	89	108	151	143
Ballyshannon IrlPar		2,815	121	21	30	172	121	17	17	155	327	4	6	37	9	56	2	0	58	4	6	44	12	66	37	5	24	12	22	29	3	102	1	1	15	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	7	22	121	38	8	80	73	60	35	33	53	47
Rathangan IrlPar		11,530	1,028	110	116	1,254	1,053	110	127	1,290	2,544	35	94	219	97	445	28	0	473	41	131	243	120	535	303	133	99	54	99	348	34	543	30	37	102	59	2	5	1	0	0	9	0	5	4	1	0	110	158	769	297	67	567	531	375	193	355	407	447
Ballybrackan IrlPar		3,057	459	45	49	553	470	50	32	552	1,105	2	9	128	60	199	2	0	201	3	10	137	68	218	150	38	30	11	68	134	5	279	50	6	50	20	4	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	17	38	327	142	23	217	190	112	110	159	196	220
Duneany IrlPar		3,084	208	24	48	280	196	27	21	244	524	1	12	55	15	83	2	0	85	1	19	59	15	94	60	4	30	12	23	48	11	144	12	1	17	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	5	23	159	53	22	115	93	63	71	69	90	87
Harristown IrlPar		4,680	268	27	48	343	266	26	27	319	662	3	16	67	15	101	8	0	109	4	17	74	18	113	79	19	15	14	54	42	3	192	19	10	52	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	24	230	95	13	118	120	87	65	98	125	100
Kildangan IrlPar		989	31	12	10	53	32	12	8	52	105	2	12	5	0	19	1	0	20	2	12	6	0	20	10	4	6	2	9	8	1	28	2	0	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	7	39	11	2	25	27	20	13	17	12	11
Kilrush IrlPar		4,077	225	31	39	295	179	32	25	236	531	6	14	58	14	92	2	1	95	6	14	63	14	97	61	14	22	17	21	53	6	168	12	6	19	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	8	30	189	63	11	122	114	69	62	76	99	72
Knavinstown IrlPar		619	6	2	21	29	15	2	4	21	50	1	1	5	1	8	0	0	8	1	1	5	1	8	7	0	1	2	4	1	1	19	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	20	6	0	7	4	5	10	8	11	5
Lackagh IrlPar		8,317	596	47	56	699	597	63	44	704	1,403	5	26	161	66	258	11	2	271	6	27	179	74	286	195	31	60	28	79	163	16	343	63	7	40	18	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	24	58	396	165	47	301	266	152	134	206	225	279
Monasterevin IrlPar		7,142	1,188	127	114	1,429	1,218	154	131	1,503	2,932	34	144	252	64	494	36	0	530	56	187	284	72	599	230	132	237	29	183	319	68	522	24	57	71	82	1	3	5	0	0	13	0	2	4	6	1	140	176	825	282	151	716	681	510	261	391	349	435
Walterstown IrlPar		1,502	133	18	15	166	124	17	13	154	320	2	4	32	9	47	1	0	48	2	4	34	9	49	35	4	10	3	13	27	6	67	2	1	14	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	18	86	34	17	61	68	52	28	27	53	56

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

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.

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