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]
Belfast Lower IrlBarony Total	-	4,195	4,373	28	139	2,384	1,140	849	11,530	12,405	23,935	5,601	375	1,661	1,155	113	1,394	170	402	226	105	99	860
Ballylinny IrlPar	-	430	445	7	20	268	111	66	1,152	1,260	2,412	605	57	196	105	0	186	5	39	17	0	0	90
Ballymartin IrlPar	-	116	117	1	5	91	14	12	355	366	721	179	25	71	53	0	20	1	0	9	0	0	26
Ballynure IrlPar	-	600	609	1	12	371	182	56	1,777	1,772	3,549	844	0	367	63	10	315	25	0	33	31	37	106
Templecorran IrlPar	-	233	244	0	11	157	42	45	623	715	1,338	309	29	106	85	0	68	10	3	8	0	19	47
Carnmoney IrlPar	-	955	995	5	50	394	316	285	2,592	2,831	5,423	1,260	97	188	271	99	241	70	198	62	34	8	188
Glynn IrlPar	-	308	308	0	9	256	43	9	827	841	1,668	426	13	119	190	1	50	13	28	7	5	2	75
Inver IrlPar	-	170	211	3	3	65	112	34	440	513	953	211	13	43	21	0	69	7	46	6	6	7	49
Island Magee IrlPar	-	469	502	7	11	262	73	167	1,206	1,404	2,610	585	73	216	139	0	100	10	25	22	0	1	129
Kilroot IrlPar	-	88	90	2	2	70	11	9	261	275	536	136	11	45	39	0	20	7	3	7	4	10	37
Raloo IrlPar	-	396	397	0	1	233	109	55	1,054	1,117	2,171	468	29	169	76	0	149	5	0	17	23	14	62
Templepatrick IrlPar	-	716	743	5	14	400	157	186	2,066	2,151	4,217	1,000	81	329	188	0	218	26	92	65	1	2	141
Shankill IrlPar	-	9,014	12,297	185	791	662	5,837	5,798	28,143	32,676	60,819	13,969	150	260	570	927	5,945	1,424	3,406	945	342	115	2,686

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Belfast Lower IrlBarony:

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.