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	Ulster	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]
Ulster IProv Total	4,041,627	402,005	425,314	3,997	16,607	268,864	88,421	68,029	1,113,094	1,173,528	2,286,622	540,479	29,301	189,087	120,795	20,919	96,088	13,277	16,651	43,423	10,938	15,624	64,346
Antrim IrlC	492,000	54,474	59,959	539	2,485	27,121	18,785	14,053	152,178	164,731	316,909	73,586	3,760	18,098	13,152	3,471	20,530	2,896	5,606	4,401	1,672	1,775	10,099
County of the Town of Carrickfergus IrlC	-	1,497	1,697	29	104	561	684	452	4,097	4,609	8,706	1,910	49	331	346	3	693	112	190	145	41	72	379
Armagh IrlC	212,755	39,571	41,176	396	1,704	25,109	10,222	5,845	107,521	112,613	220,134	52,392	2,025	15,728	14,730	1,683	11,795	1,180	1,504	3,165	582	777	6,116
Cavan IrlC	384,181	38,917	40,338	488	1,044	31,091	4,462	4,785	113,174	114,759	227,933	53,580	3,348	21,486	13,913	89	6,270	916	473	5,799	1,286	1,572	7,075
Donegal IrlC	896,000	50,171	52,739	659	2,300	38,178	7,204	7,357	141,845	147,304	289,149	68,851	4,055	34,836	13,330	910	8,700	1,270	1,423	3,404	923	2,226	5,308
Down IrlC	436,900	62,629	66,233	482	3,146	34,447	17,979	13,807	169,416	182,596	352,012	82,999	4,568	20,483	19,048	5,787	18,252	2,256	3,387	7,476	1,742	2,874	11,028
Fermanagh IrlC	340,678	25,781	28,132	322	824	20,617	2,977	4,538	73,117	76,646	149,763	35,568	2,253	16,984	7,881	4	4,372	697	720	2,353	304	128	4,199
Londonderry IrlC	405,354	39,077	41,239	303	1,526	25,009	10,393	5,837	106,657	115,355	222,012	52,367	2,530	15,530	14,717	2,774	9,269	1,671	1,825	2,664	1,387	2,054	5,878
Monaghan IrlC	277,472	35,225	36,766	303	1,680	27,908	4,765	4,093	95,679	99,857	195,536	45,669	1,984	17,232	10,631	1,623	5,071	807	416	7,414	491	537	5,949
Tyrone IrlC	596,287	54,663	57,035	476	1,794	38,823	10,950	7,262	149,410	155,058	304,468	73,557	4,729	28,379	13,047	4,575	11,136	1,472	1,107	6,602	2,510	3,609	8,315

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.