Vision of Ireland | 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.".

List for top level	Sligo	List for Ireland Dep

click on 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]
Sligo IrlC Total	408,320	29,588	32,203	404	1,193	22,750	3,938	5,515	83,730	88,035	171,765	40,849	744	20,889	7,764	3	5,031	855	2,150	2,004	1,409	774	4,196
Carbury IrlBarony	-	7,810	9,407	170	492	5,212	1,846	2,349	23,390	25,497	48,887	11,563	210	3,187	3,019	3	2,295	534	1,060	719	536	289	1,544
Coolavin IrlBarony	-	1,499	1,517	7	49	1,323	91	103	4,285	4,311	8,596	2,060	27	1,188	568	0	142	17	28	73	17	14	202
Corran IrlBarony	-	3,054	3,391	70	125	2,478	309	604	8,541	8,890	17,431	4,120	51	2,150	1,152	0	416	48	16	259	28	16	501
Leyny IrlBarony	-	6,062	6,235	71	182	5,299	484	452	16,094	16,755	32,849	7,699	150	5,387	934	0	678	79	0	188	283	234	672
Tirerrill IrlBarony	-	5,047	5,185	34	62	3,507	411	1,267	14,150	14,586	28,736	6,722	101	4,333	215	0	574	67	979	247	206	91	529
Tireragh IrlBarony	-	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

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.

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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.