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]
Costello IrlBarony Total	-	7,773	8,004	94	217	7,210	309	485	22,352	22,633	44,985	10,310	220	7,397	1,309	0	735	141	20	284	204	151	769
Annagh IrlPar	-	1,149	1,157	5	18	1,097	0	60	3,110	3,238	6,348	1,494	27	1,264	115	0	75	6	4	3	0	3	108
Aghamore IrlPar	-	1,199	1,200	5	7	1,187	2	11	3,486	3,576	7,062	1,532	25	1,308	137	0	37	3	1	20	1	0	108
Bekan IrlPar	-	935	977	14	32	854	46	77	2,631	2,719	5,350	1,301	57	966	111	0	85	19	3	51	9	44	106
Castlemore IrlPar	-	520	528	10	19	454	52	22	1,559	1,535	3,094	722	6	500	104	0	75	7	2	22	6	12	53
Kilbeagh IrlPar	-	1,470	1,485	17	20	1,273	63	149	4,369	4,421	8,790	1,798	55	1,173	329	0	91	24	0	61	65	33	120
Kilcolman IrlPar	-	894	978	16	45	799	117	62	2,682	2,745	5,427	1,323	21	763	235	0	179	54	4	41	26	18	94
Kilmovee IrlPar	-	1,005	1,043	21	64	957	16	70	2,761	2,730	5,491	1,343	21	919	131	0	131	25	5	69	42	17	87
Kilturra IrlPar	-	364	386	6	5	317	25	44	1,149	979	2,128	492	5	316	94	0	40	4	0	15	18	2	62
Knock IrlPar	-	534	560	9	14	529	3	28	1,531	1,505	3,036	730	4	543	52	0	61	7	2	25	36	24	69

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Costello 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.