The so-called “1659 Census” is now understood to be abstracts of the 1660 and 1661 Irish poll tax returns. [1]
It's not yet proven in primary documents that the Cork entries here are related, but according to the surname historians they are.
Seen as Principal Irish Names
Cork, East Division of Carbury: Buoige 16
Cork, West Division of Carbury: O Buoige 11 and O Buoy 38
TOTAL POSSIBLE FOR MUNSTER = 65
(The links below are to pages showing the barony on a map.)
Kilkenny, Barony of Galmoy (northwest corner of Kilkenny): Boe and O Boe 9
Kilkenny, Barony of Gowran (largest; east and central of Kilkenny): O Boe 7
Kilkenny, Barony of Cranngh (immediately south of Galmoy): O Boe &c 5
Kilkenny, Towne of Callan: “Roger Boe, gent”
Queenes [Laois], Barony of “Ossery” (“Upper Ossery” immediately north of Kilkenny with “Lower Ossery” In Kilkenny): Bowe 10, O Bowe 2
Tipperary, Barony of Sleavordagh (immediately west of Galmoy, Kilkenny): Boe 7
Wexford, Barony of Shelbyrne: O Boe 10 [2]
TOTAL FOR LEINSTER = 49
It is unclear whether the Laois Bowe were a separate family from the Boe listings in neighboring counties.
NB: By the Griffiths Valuation in the mid-1800s, 15 Boe households appear in Tipperary to the near exclusion of the other counties listed here.
Recorded Elsewhere (But Not As Principal Names?)
(Look these up in source to verify)
Kilkenny, Barony of _______: Bow
Waterford, Barony of Upperthird: Buo [3]
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1. McCormick, Ted. William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic. Oxford University Press: 2009, p. 126.
2. Pender, MA, Seamus, Ed. A Census of Ireland Circa 1659 With Essential Materials from the Poll Money Ordinances 1660-1661. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, p. 227-8, 2002.
3. Ibid.