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]
Iveagh Lower IrlBarony Total	-	11,503	11,900	56	463	5,105	4,863	1,932	32,115	33,253	65,368	16,131	695	3,206	2,958	2,923	4,187	294	576	1,051	241	542	1,809
Blaris IrlPar	-	2,220	2,582	10	88	663	1,266	653	6,356	6,893	13,249	3,126	91	394	401	1,017	651	121	212	183	56	82	389
Magheralin IrlPar	-	905	957	6	24	479	287	191	2,470	2,588	5,058	1,228	69	346	234	327	116	15	84	31	6	55	150
Shankill IrlPar	-	1,329	1,475	19	42	351	667	457	3,749	4,009	7,758	1,903	46	300	140	446	527	99	245	66	34	47	270
Aghaderg IrlPar	-	1,645	1,670	14	59	944	523	203	4,328	4,653	8,981	2,105	98	589	368	1	698	28	40	272	11	18	237
Annahilt IrlPar	-	659	681	3	19	397	181	103	1,823	1,932	3,755	881	52	365	128	135	72	20	13	37	59	5	142
Donaghcloney IrlPar	-	943	967	4	29	319	571	77	2,844	2,817	5,661	1,399	48	189	281	611	114	22	61	66	7	13	175
Dromore IrlPar	-	2,693	2,828	12	200	1,097	1,258	473	7,303	7,608	14,911	3,883	69	635	855	10	1,907	61	75	237	34	217	393
Dromara IrlPar	-	1,854	1,948	15	95	1,321	395	232	4,909	5,220	10,129	2,517	81	933	404	0	709	39	7	342	2	28	296
Garvaghy IrlPar	-	906	911	3	41	679	133	99	2,520	2,516	5,036	1,218	103	397	317	0	199	13	0	184	5	75	133
Hillsborough IrlPar	-	1,088	1,163	5	23	560	365	238	3,139	3,247	6,386	1,558	67	453	264	344	173	37	72	127	21	64	180
Magherally IrlPar	-	574	574	1	0	278	225	71	1,552	1,637	3,189	740	116	84	126	0	339	11	12	51	1	23	82
Seapatrick IrlPar	-	1,308	1,384	20	53	444	624	316	3,694	3,891	7,585	1,824	61	194	312	18	823	59	169	172	16	29	279
Moira IrlPar	-	657	662	14	39	278	240	144	1,859	1,942	3,801	962	54	218	134	0	405	28	55	62	6	45	119
Tullylish IrlPar	-	1,850	1,872	5	51	587	945	340	5,161	5,340	10,501	2,500	74	227	402	1,167	184	56	126	165	99	38	210

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