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

List for top level	Ireland

click on 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]
Ireland Dep Total		20,811,774	2,548,622	406,284	235,724	3,190,630	2,624,439	509,257	228,059	3,361,755	6,552,385	50,164	318,758	541,712	135,589	1,046,223	65,263	1,868	1,113,354	85,131	386,066	585,569	147,553	1,204,319	634,196	297,158	272,965	84,252	414,566	625,616	79,885	1,269,841	174,993	164,511	372,485	136,993	6,032	3,714	3,419	982	916	26,723	130	10,402	6,960	6,994	1,399	179,033	279,211	1,799,193	845,545	197,859	1,361,909	1,168,840	769,845	491,716	711,330	1,202,650	1,563,633
Leinster IProv		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
Munster IProv		6,067,990	681,344	151,161	72,474	904,979	699,370	184,821	68,566	952,757	1,857,736	12,362	76,373	128,151	50,187	267,073	19,417	473	286,963	19,693	98,141	145,161	56,556	319,551	169,587	73,190	76,774	31,964	86,093	175,033	26,461	373,372	70,374	26,457	60,267	36,543	1,630	886	1,182	389	343	7,434	41	2,844	1,644	1,891	501	53,553	84,112	503,369	220,094	62,162	405,337	317,152	201,938	100,382	130,990	400,259	535,809
Ulster IProv		5,475,530	819,029	85,402	71,881	976,312	858,892	114,914	61,762	1,035,568	2,011,880	11,104	128,872	188,296	23,613	351,885	20,679	520	373,084	13,213	145,681	197,473	24,703	381,070	201,892	113,037	66,141	18,413	161,205	186,610	14,842	382,195	32,084	94,990	204,712	39,082	1,012	917	486	161	102	4,936	22	3,248	1,788	2,071	83	37,233	60,530	564,833	300,819	44,575	377,340	388,931	247,459	206,034	323,315	275,311	361,706
Connaught IProv		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

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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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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