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]
Tireragh IrlBarony Total	-	6,116	6,468	52	283	4,931	797	740	17,270	17,996	35,266	8,685	205	4,644	1,876	0	926	110	67	518	339	130	748
Kilmoremoy IrlPar	-	2,479	2,696	57	295	1,615	620	461	6,764	7,822	14,586	3,427	59	1,005	1,002	0	749	132	66	291	123	48	405
Castleconor IrlPar	-	789	792	3	12	720	43	29	2,302	2,343	4,645	1,188	13	944	56	0	50	5	0	30	90	12	68
Dromard IrlPar	-	460	493	5	26	367	63	63	1,267	1,346	2,613	655	28	285	208	0	80	12	6	32	4	1	76
Easky IrlPar	-	1,110	1,124	5	41	952	85	87	3,069	3,060	6,129	1,520	18	901	335	0	110	15	0	66	75	41	112
Kilglass IrlPar	-	772	783	1	23	680	56	47	2,165	2,191	4,356	1,070	10	746	113	0	69	8	0	49	75	41	104
Kilmacshalgan IrlPar	-	575	604	5	34	440	93	71	1,652	1,678	3,330	808	31	324	261	0	122	16	1	47	6	6	104
Skreen IrlPar	-	771	886	6	33	563	127	196	2,214	2,353	4,567	1,128	51	401	334	0	154	25	1	152	10	4	112
Templeboy IrlPar	-	644	704	2	40	504	92	108	1,902	1,885	3,787	928	45	400	273	0	111	7	0	84	8	0	85

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