Vision of Britain | 1891 Census: Population summary

1891 Census of Ireland, Census of Ireland, 1891. Part I: Area, Houses, and Population: also the Ages, Civil or Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Religion, and Education of the People. , Table 7 : " Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each parish, townland, and township in 1891".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in 1891. [1]	Houses								Out-offices and Farmsteadings in 1891. [10]	Population							Valuation of Houses, Land, &c. in 1891. [18]
		1851. [2]	1861. [3]	1871. [4]	1881. [5]	1891					1851. [11]	1861. [12]	1871. [13]	1881. [14]	1891
		1851. [2]	1861. [3]	1871. [4]	1881. [5]	Total. [6]	Inhabited. [7]	Uninhabited. [8]	Building. [9]		1851. [11]	1861. [12]	1871. [13]	1881. [14]	Persons. [15]	Males. [16]	Females. [17]
Offaly IrlC Total	493,263	146,857	20,042	17,046	15,253	14,612	13,780	12,840	921	19	112,080	90,043	75,900	72,852	65,563	33,777	31,786	243,641
Ballyboy IrlBarony	32,408	9,174	1,203	1,059	924	858	839	780	54	5	6,190	5,040	4,208	3,841	3,695	1,920	1,775	14,372
Ballybritt IrlBarony	53,995	19,460	2,740	2,396	2,159	2,095	1,950	1,823	125	2	16,632	14,210	11,303	10,569	9,698	4,960	4,738	33,877
Ballycowan IrlBarony	38,645	18,320	2,616	2,286	2,107	2,079	1,898	1,757	135	6	15,789	12,550	11,047	10,810	9,332	4,752	4,580	23,726
Clonlisk IrlBarony	49,058	17,113	2,189	1,805	1,606	1,440	1,339	1,215	124	0	11,963	9,322	7,598	6,926	5,971	3,014	2,957	28,619
Coolestown IrlBarony	47,889	9,488	1,326	1,176	1,105	1,081	1,043	968	74	1	8,702	6,846	6,082	5,787	5,228	2,706	2,522	22,035
Eglish IrlBarony	28,706	6,560	767	561	493	465	446	419	27	0	4,573	3,070	2,507	2,520	2,314	1,194	1,120	11,864
Garrycastle IrlBarony	103,144	30,389	4,007	3,274	2,880	2,736	2,542	2,389	151	2	21,210	16,648	14,097	13,648	12,314	6,416	5,898	40,414
Geashill IrlBarony	30,877	8,261	1,188	898	773	738	732	689	43	0	6,304	4,562	3,792	3,741	3,396	1,792	1,604	13,993
Kilcoursey IrlBarony	19,291	9,204	1,270	1,122	969	996	949	904	45	0	6,261	5,139	4,547	4,575	4,372	2,125	2,247	12,976
Philipstown Lower IrlBarony	30,689	7,223	1,064	954	811	760	735	682	53	0	5,320	4,887	3,925	3,926	3,519	1,963	1,556	14,641
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony	37,096	7,452	1,124	1,029	985	932	888	824	61	3	5,841	5,048	4,597	4,391	3,877	1,970	1,907	14,229
Warrenstown IrlBarony	21,462	4,213	558	486	441	432	419	390	29	0	3,295	2,721	2,197	2,118	1,847	965	882	12,895

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

Rate	Date
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1871
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1891
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1891
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1891

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 listed valuations in pounds, shillings and pence but they are here rounded to the nearest pound,
4	The numbers in this table for Provinces, Counties and Baronies have been carefully checked. However, the parish listing is often hard to read and some transcriptions will be incorrect.

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.