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]
Raphoe IrlBarony Total	-	11,728	12,103	71	456	7,712	2,134	2,257	32,657	34,016	66,673	16,085	1,404	5,342	5,002	334	2,693	349	169	733	59	540	1,495
Conwal IrlPar	-	2,293	2,389	16	176	1,528	658	203	6,414	6,565	12,979	3,000	181	1,248	575	13	723	57	19	174	10	154	241
Allsaints IrlPar	-	666	704	2	14	444	176	84	2,058	2,114	4,172	952	125	76	508	5	181	10	6	41	0	140	138
Convoy IrlPar	-	984	1,034	3	60	719	180	135	2,665	2,715	5,380	1,254	148	519	282	0	238	19	1	47	0	1	84
Donaghmore IrlPar	-	2,348	2,373	25	83	1,340	285	748	6,576	6,768	13,344	3,276	293	1,397	787	100	464	31	1	189	14	152	266
Killea IrlPar	-	182	192	0	0	103	54	35	453	475	928	234	21	32	97	5	58	3	1	15	2	22	28
Kilteevoge IrlPar	-	742	762	0	12	647	69	46	2,104	2,186	4,290	1,029	66	634	197	0	91	8	0	29	4	0	118
Leck IrlPar	-	677	683	6	23	465	133	85	2,000	2,036	4,036	1,057	99	429	275	47	161	13	20	11	2	45	81
Clonleigh IrlPar	-	1,011	1,079	4	53	657	202	220	2,930	3,011	5,941	1,491	121	327	536	0	297	84	40	73	13	122	182
Raphoe IrlPar	-	1,126	1,197	10	62	679	259	259	2,966	3,261	6,227	1,426	148	336	423	0	337	53	17	94	18	6	168
Raymoghy IrlPar	-	1,032	1,036	7	38	688	178	170	2,819	2,935	5,754	1,390	142	359	556	100	148	20	18	44	3	5	128
Stranorlar IrlPar	-	1,104	1,148	2	50	774	244	130	2,943	3,185	6,128	1,439	60	407	520	64	206	63	6	110	3	3	141
Taughboyne IrlPar	-	1,123	1,153	4	27	666	270	217	3,141	3,204	6,345	1,534	124	204	662	0	390	37	56	61	0	0	124
Urney IrlPar	-	1,274	1,324	9	65	761	238	325	3,425	3,765	7,190	1,717	112	488	562	1	387	28	1	131	7	50	181

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