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	Mayo	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]
Mayo IrlC Total	1,023,273	62,367	65,207	699	2,085	52,668	4,895	7,644	179,595	186,733	366,328	86,782	3,860	50,219	17,238	4	6,896	1,483	1,210	3,609	2,263	1,449	6,836
Burrishoole IrlBarony	-	6,851	7,070	42	166	6,171	187	712	19,922	20,220	40,142	9,551	145	8,021	550	0	308	178	9	66	274	164	423
Carra IrlBarony	-	8,415	9,098	94	265	6,511	1,072	1,515	24,633	25,569	50,202	12,067	315	5,925	2,642	1	1,500	204	482	574	424	213	998
Clanmorris IrlBarony	-	3,882	4,021	29	111	3,229	396	396	11,241	11,550	22,791	5,332	135	3,110	1,047	2	519	153	4	51	311	134	456
Costello IrlBarony	-	7,773	8,004	94	217	7,210	309	485	22,352	22,633	44,985	10,310	220	7,397	1,309	0	735	141	20	284	204	151	769
Erris IrlBarony	-	3,824	4,077	131	268	3,424	165	488	11,165	11,661	22,826	5,403	226	4,282	243	0	253	47	14	148	190	142	383
Gallen IrlBarony	-	7,455	7,691	71	211	6,605	441	645	21,038	21,749	42,787	10,291	603	5,821	2,630	0	598	153	16	427	43	182	854
Kilmaine IrlBarony	-	6,600	6,777	46	73	5,241	725	811	18,437	19,393	37,830	9,106	264	4,394	2,492	0	890	118	154	464	330	135	815
Murrisk IrlBarony	-	5,678	5,978	30	127	4,416	526	1,036	16,796	17,731	34,527	7,947	361	4,539	1,279	1	693	181	444	146	303	255	633
Tirawley IrlBarony	-	11,889	12,491	162	647	9,861	1,074	1,556	34,011	36,227	70,238	16,775	1,591	6,730	5,046	0	1,400	308	67	1,449	184	73	1,505

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.