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]
Salt South IrlBarony Total	-	665	697	4	26	474	88	135	2,101	2,053	4,154	1,047	118	130	491	4	134	13	86	30	41	40	143
Naas IrlPar	-	753	932	6	30	367	319	246	2,278	2,613	4,891	1,138	33	45	389	1	407	86	88	46	43	29	174
Rathmore IrlPar	-	333	355	0	5	189	31	135	1,139	1,089	2,228	597	79	147	297	0	46	13	1	11	3	6	63
Whitechurch IrlPar	-	41	41	0	0	40	1	0	143	136	279	77	6	6	60	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	7
Castledillon IrlPar	-	19	21	0	1	10	2	9	61	63	124	28	0	0	17	1	2	1	0	2	5	0	9
Kildrought IrlPar	-	348	406	2	17	137	201	68	1,080	1,217	2,297	513	19	2	177	164	92	23	17	9	10	6	75
Donaghcumper IrlPar	-	267	275	4	12	160	45	70	748	801	1,549	339	24	22	148	1	67	4	58	4	11	5	33
Kill IrlPar	-	203	218	0	9	152	28	38	717	638	1,355	383	59	22	194	2	50	5	18	14	19	27	68
Lyons IrlPar	-	29	29	0	0	21	2	6	80	78	158	40	6	9	15	0	2	0	3	2	3	0	9
Oughterard IrlPar	-	38	38	0	1	30	5	3	117	106	223	56	1	11	36	0	5	1	0	2	0	0	5

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