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]
Gowran IrlBarony Total	-	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
Wells IrlPar	-	265	286	0	2	148	76	62	751	803	1,554	388	29	20	177	0	105	11	20	15	11	34	78
Ullard IrlPar	-	372	373	5	4	250	38	85	1,014	1,125	2,139	525	22	237	155	0	65	5	10	28	3	2	70
St Johns IrlPar	-	879	1,215	4	28	552	409	254	2,686	3,118	5,804	1,286	7	161	428	9	484	53	33	82	29	27	233
Mothell IrlPar	-	397	408	3	3	311	38	59	1,282	1,248	2,530	562	52	254	156	0	50	6	18	25	1	1	94
Blackrath IrlPar	-	100	102	0	0	87	4	11	390	357	747	238	13	19	155	1	7	6	26	4	7	2	15
Blanchvilleskill IrlPar	-	52	53	0	1	44	4	5	172	157	329	94	9	18	50	0	7	2	2	3	3	0	18
Clara IrlPar	-	114	115	1	1	108	5	2	406	383	789	221	15	29	168	1	5	1	0	1	1	0	3
Columbkille IrlPar	-	144	152	2	6	118	10	24	420	440	860	209	25	67	69	0	25	4	4	11	4	0	36
Dunbell IrlPar	-	77	93	2	2	73	13	7	270	297	567	139	24	16	78	0	15	0	0	5	1	2	31
Dungarvan IrlPar	-	293	296	3	5	226	30	40	906	878	1,784	456	34	205	154	0	40	9	1	13	0	0	67
Gowran IrlPar	-	455	483	7	15	283	95	105	1,328	1,404	2,732	724	67	122	273	1	137	17	39	68	0	3	120
Grangesilvia IrlPar	-	409	409	3	12	196	91	122	1,110	1,203	2,313	558	24	130	160	0	124	27	61	26	6	1	88
Graiguenamanagh IrlPar	-	825	886	8	22	421	249	216	2,298	2,471	4,769	1,110	74	260	257	0	293	38	118	68	2	20	190
Inistioge IrlPar	-	476	572	3	22	215	105	252	1,541	1,680	3,221	830	66	256	160	0	165	26	38	49	70	51	144
Kilfane IrlPar	-	150	152	1	2	123	8	21	442	456	898	226	19	67	101	0	12	8	8	9	2	4	35
Killarney IrlPar	-	103	107	1	1	64	24	19	301	280	581	151	9	60	41	1	31	4	2	3	0	0	26
Kilmacahill IrlPar	-	224	238	0	4	182	29	27	695	696	1,391	380	40	80	181	1	49	14	1	6	8	6	65
Kilmadum IrlPar	-	192	193	0	1	157	14	22	587	620	1,207	265	13	99	114	0	16	2	2	19	0	1	39
Powerstown IrlPar	-	341	354	1	3	303	25	26	1,081	1,083	2,164	524	53	176	208	0	50	6	1	19	11	3	73
Rathcool and Kilderry IrlPar	-	224	237	1	1	224	4	9	735	739	1,474	378	26	164	108	0	26	0	0	4	50	28	61
Shankill IrlPar	-	372	372	7	15	263	25	84	1,155	1,158	2,313	573	40	224	111	0	36	12	116	5	29	23	72
Thomastown IrlPar	-	553	660	6	16	194	274	192	1,459	1,723	3,182	768	21	90	162	9	322	40	55	60	9	8	123
Tiscoffin IrlPar	-	189	197	0	6	165	20	12	665	618	1,283	336	27	177	90	0	27	4	8	3	0	0	56
Tullaherin IrlPar	-	131	136	1	2	117	9	10	437	458	895	233	27	56	119	0	17	7	0	5	2	0	49
Jerpointwest IrlPar	-	217	225	1	4	157	33	35	661	696	1,357	338	35	109	110	1	39	7	19	16	2	0	67

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