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]
Meath IrlC Total	488,758	29,796	31,632	333	597	22,396	4,575	4,661	88,993	87,833	176,826	44,204	2,102	6,894	23,045	131	6,497	1,017	1,438	1,710	1,370	1,224	6,565
Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown	-	3,206	3,784	34	131	418	1,916	1,450	8,178	9,187	17,365	4,222	26	84	431	946	1,431	336	653	235	80	43	723
Deece Lower IrlBarony	-	655	680	6	7	518	69	93	1,992	1,939	3,931	999	106	109	506	0	113	16	14	73	62	67	160
Deece Upper IrlBarony	-	851	920	9	16	719	88	113	2,698	2,596	5,294	1,460	103	119	909	0	155	56	24	30	64	94	240
Fore IrlBarony	-	2,322	2,457	23	26	1,864	316	277	6,857	6,860	13,717	3,443	137	750	1,673	0	431	66	18	201	167	87	497
Duleek Lower IrlBarony	-	1,759	1,871	26	64	1,313	272	286	4,951	5,069	10,020	2,676	221	153	1,492	42	344	66	92	92	174	139	484
Duleek Upper IrlBarony	-	1,517	1,545	12	23	1,167	215	163	4,694	4,247	8,941	2,482	190	316	1,416	0	333	50	36	71	70	60	409
Dunboyne IrlBarony	-	409	455	1	6	307	66	82	1,367	1,331	2,698	721	36	32	458	0	91	33	16	30	25	8	136
Kells Lower IrlBarony	-	2,331	2,435	9	20	1,754	227	454	6,860	6,806	13,666	3,306	175	1,184	980	0	373	48	369	84	93	70	479
Kells Upper IrlBarony	-	3,385	3,654	37	63	2,163	689	802	10,106	10,356	20,462	4,280	119	686	2,571	1	957	137	533	176	100	38	802
Lune IrlBarony	-	2,078	2,172	35	42	1,567	304	301	6,007	6,205	12,212	2,900	91	488	1,640	0	437	45	11	120	68	104	342
Morgallion IrlBarony	-	2,125	2,243	30	54	1,760	275	208	5,982	6,008	11,990	2,977	119	590	1,636	49	340	39	11	120	73	59	364
Moyfenrath Lower IrlBarony	-	1,897	2,098	22	33	1,473	378	247	6,103	5,790	11,893	3,010	121	319	1,725	0	523	86	31	93	112	73	435
Moyfenrath Upper IrlBarony	-	1,375	1,535	18	26	1,121	200	214	4,427	4,204	8,631	2,105	88	233	1,335	0	273	22	29	116	9	0	276
Navan Lower IrlBarony	-	2,945	3,064	39	52	2,121	543	400	7,994	8,240	16,234	4,036	93	612	2,241	7	759	97	12	133	82	99	437
Navan Upper IrlBarony	-	806	871	20	22	557	152	162	2,514	2,343	4,857	1,292	42	109	713	0	259	48	37	65	19	13	164
Ratoath IrlBarony	-	979	1,070	5	6	723	148	199	3,629	3,056	6,685	2,120	107	193	1,361	1	232	49	85	41	51	100	307
Skreen IrlBarony	-	1,390	1,481	12	44	1,003	180	298	4,380	4,303	8,683	2,227	226	161	1,220	31	244	70	84	107	84	68	404
Slane Lower IrlBarony	-	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
Slane Upper IrlBarony	-	1,267	1,319	4	47	918	236	165	3,610	3,655	7,265	1,764	46	379	859	0	325	31	36	63	25	18	247

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Meath IrlC:

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.