Vision of Britain | 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]
Donegal IrlC Total	1,193,443	107,434	9,669	7,620	124,723	110,577	14,382	5,476	130,435	255,158	791	9,561	29,528	4,744	44,624	2,249	77	46,950	944	10,237	30,786	4,886	46,853	31,413	8,760	6,680	3,802	22,626	18,575	1,850	58,873	3,978	4,302	23,330	2,761	39	73	58	26	11	846	4	427	169	224	5	2,148	5,697	69,680	33,291	6,467	49,741	31,865	17,190	21,142	27,147	58,120	72,742
Banagh IrlBarony	177,822	16,031	1,041	751	17,823	17,442	1,794	467	19,703	37,526	62	1,521	4,521	558	6,662	194	17	6,873	69	1,639	4,670	568	6,946	4,334	1,455	1,157	620	3,601	2,514	211	8,541	351	529	6,177	335	2	4	0	0	0	82	1	49	15	20	0	245	455	9,805	7,001	727	5,343	3,241	1,560	2,340	2,488	10,181	13,557
Boylagh IrlBarony	158,480	9,274	813	391	10,478	9,610	1,180	374	11,164	21,642	32	412	2,549	734	3,727	223	10	3,960	36	480	2,687	751	3,954	2,877	671	406	579	1,870	1,428	77	5,171	351	145	3,572	124	0	4	11	2	1	103	0	41	12	12	0	132	207	5,734	4,154	334	2,745	1,366	498	979	764	6,830	8,652
Inishowen East IrlBarony	123,399	13,650	1,263	799	15,712	13,640	2,058	523	16,221	31,933	94	1,449	3,545	480	5,568	372	5	5,945	111	1,503	3,631	481	5,726	3,718	1,159	849	201	3,262	2,059	204	7,463	614	473	2,554	320	3	6	5	6	1	108	0	48	26	26	0	286	859	8,736	4,062	818	6,168	3,926	1,970	3,273	3,730	6,761	8,785
Inishowen West IrlBarony	74,461	6,923	551	592	8,066	7,010	827	408	8,245	16,311	74	699	1,875	308	2,956	184	1	3,141	78	725	1,938	312	3,053	1,976	504	573	323	1,267	1,275	188	3,739	385	305	941	168	2	2	2	1	0	52	1	25	14	21	1	123	293	4,436	1,639	589	3,739	2,742	1,527	1,755	2,580	2,685	3,305
Kilmacrenan IrlBarony	310,656	26,471	2,361	1,643	30,475	26,828	3,335	1,408	31,571	62,046	179	1,664	7,480	1,502	10,825	445	29	11,299	221	1,822	7,789	1,553	11,385	8,127	1,837	1,421	607	5,626	4,722	430	13,948	1,137	1,050	3,143	677	7	20	17	8	3	268	1	111	33	56	2	512	1,623	16,650	5,966	1,846	13,841	6,709	3,522	4,222	5,185	16,207	19,565
Raphoe IrlBarony	220,723	22,184	2,194	2,558	26,936	22,444	3,079	1,584	27,107	54,043	209	2,278	5,959	948	9,394	460	8	9,862	247	2,407	6,284	998	9,936	6,962	1,890	1,084	1,092	4,243	4,087	514	13,032	804	1,277	2,902	664	9	19	9	4	4	123	1	96	41	54	1	432	1,480	15,701	5,251	1,356	12,380	8,864	5,291	5,610	7,977	9,759	11,234
Tirhugh IrlBarony	127,902	12,901	1,446	886	15,233	13,603	2,109	712	16,424	31,657	141	1,538	3,599	214	5,492	371	7	5,870	182	1,661	3,787	223	5,853	3,419	1,244	1,190	380	2,757	2,490	226	6,979	336	523	4,041	473	16	18	14	5	2	110	0	57	28	35	1	418	780	8,618	5,218	797	5,525	5,017	2,822	2,963	4,423	5,697	7,644

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Donegal IrlC:

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.