Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Ireland, Abstracts of Answers and Returns Made under the Population Acts, 55 Geo. III -- Chap. 120. 3 Geo. IV. -- Chap. 5. 2 Geo. IV. -- Chap. 30. 1 Will. IV. -- Chap. 19.: Enumeration 1831., Table [1] : " Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Acts, Ireland:- Enumeration 1831.".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Kilkenny IrlC Total	469,174	27,248	28,823	274	521	19,727	4,271	4,825	83,090	86,855	169,945	41,653	3,071	10,372	16,893	124	5,658	1,006	2,078	1,440	1,011	912	6,245
Kilkenny IrlCity	-	3,759	4,785	84	273	1,501	1,918	1,366	10,887	12,854	23,741	5,516	195	288	1,394	147	2,174	353	425	344	196	80	1,058
Crannagh IrlBarony	-	2,398	2,579	46	39	1,958	313	308	7,565	7,779	15,344	3,776	374	1,157	1,517	25	402	56	17	129	99	52	370
Fassadinin IrlBarony	-	4,822	5,059	58	89	2,941	741	1,377	14,090	14,800	28,890	6,534	339	1,369	2,476	1	991	128	842	204	184	179	946
Galmoy IrlBarony	-	2,831	2,966	29	47	2,196	432	338	8,294	8,615	16,909	4,183	224	974	1,844	6	590	120	37	182	206	153	622
Gowran IrlBarony	-	5,827	6,219	51	143	3,867	1,082	1,270	17,578	18,362	35,940	9,030	680	2,535	2,966	15	1,465	238	510	411	210	153	1,414
Ida IrlBarony	-	2,789	2,973	27	49	2,241	339	393	9,074	9,573	18,647	4,687	361	1,475	1,729	41	469	94	362	109	47	56	751
Iverk IrlBarony	-	2,240	2,331	13	15	1,689	295	347	6,948	7,534	14,482	3,551	392	735	1,615	12	447	83	127	97	43	151	679
Kells IrlBarony	-	2,478	2,630	18	51	1,822	476	332	7,559	7,902	15,461	3,783	221	948	1,483	10	582	139	104	139	157	140	565
Knocktopher IrlBarony	-	2,133	2,266	19	43	1,671	318	277	6,457	6,881	13,338	3,256	245	691	1,654	2	413	88	50	84	29	7	512
Shillelogher IrlBarony	-	1,730	1,800	13	45	1,342	275	183	5,525	5,409	10,934	2,853	235	488	1,609	12	299	60	29	85	36	21	386

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1831

Comments:

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.

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.