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	Ireland

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]
Ireland Dep Total	17,182,763	1,249,816	1,385,066	15,308	40,654	884,339	249,359	251,368	3,794,880	3,972,521	7,767,401	1,867,765	95,339	564,274	567,441	25,746	298,838	61,514	89,876	110,595	54,142	44,600	253,155
Leinster IProv	4,270,213	292,729	344,314	3,715	7,967	186,177	75,040	83,097	927,877	981,836	1,909,713	465,953	20,789	87,819	162,417	3,212	93,880	24,891	31,440	24,934	16,571	11,146	76,785
Munster IProv	5,210,472	330,444	376,051	3,796	9,553	244,770	62,285	68,996	1,093,411	1,133,741	2,227,152	542,200	33,443	120,268	212,347	1,048	77,280	16,825	34,507	28,996	17,486	12,276	81,349
Ulster IProv	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
Connaught IProv	3,660,451	224,638	239,387	3,800	6,527	184,528	23,613	31,246	660,498	683,416	1,343,914	319,133	11,806	167,100	71,882	567	31,590	6,521	7,278	13,242	9,147	5,554	30,675

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.