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.".

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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]
Slane Lower IrlBarony Total	-	1,705	1,762	25	46	1,348	217	197	4,822	4,825	9,647	2,406	82	461	310	0	308	58	0	95	92	127	382
Enniskeen IrlPar	-	1,928	1,971	10	35	1,521	256	194	5,160	5,208	10,368	2,390	62	1,093	703	1	334	40	1	60	96	179	351
Ardagh IrlPar	-	437	462	5	17	375	56	31	1,202	1,206	2,408	575	14	142	322	0	75	7	0	15	0	17	68
Nobber IrlPar	-	671	713	9	11	560	109	44	1,981	1,971	3,952	1,001	37	216	515	25	132	18	2	35	21	11	161
Drumcondra IrlPar	-	518	548	3	6	398	77	73	1,531	1,436	2,967	759	31	94	451	0	112	34	0	28	9	48	112
Inishmot IrlPar	-	65	65	1	2	57	6	2	211	194	405	114	9	22	61	0	8	0	0	5	9	11	24
Killary IrlPar	-	418	426	7	18	314	53	59	1,149	1,194	2,343	568	7	159	260	0	73	7	0	31	31	28	84
Loughbrackan IrlPar	-	92	93	4	3	73	6	14	242	251	493	110	3	30	59	0	6	0	0	6	6	10	21
Mitchelstown IrlPar	-	49	50	1	0	41	3	6	146	157	303	70	1	16	37	0	6	1	0	6	3	5	12
Siddan IrlPar	-	215	216	6	4	173	29	14	600	612	1,212	346	14	39	198	0	47	8	0	8	32	9	71

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