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	Philipstown Upper	List for Offaly IrlC

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]
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony Total	-	1,652	1,696	18	21	1,385	197	114	4,967	4,897	9,864	2,370	59	1,446	463	0	262	47	3	30	60	96	234
Fontstown IrlPar	-	183	188	1	2	153	16	19	545	539	1,084	278	7	98	133	0	19	4	0	0	17	22	48
Ballybrackan IrlPar	-	225	236	6	7	192	20	24	653	631	1,284	308	5	192	76	0	27	3	0	3	2	10	19
Duneany IrlPar	-	86	92	1	5	63	5	24	270	240	510	131	10	31	77	0	7	3	0	2	1	11	16
Ballykean IrlPar	-	404	417	3	2	347	47	23	1,207	1,208	2,415	574	21	324	133	0	60	9	0	3	24	23	75
Geashill IrlPar	-	1,720	1,786	33	52	1,390	177	219	5,108	5,159	10,267	2,470	183	1,123	711	0	259	26	68	76	24	136	304
Clonyhurk IrlPar	-	495	513	4	6	354	95	64	1,485	1,503	2,988	709	10	366	133	0	122	32	1	19	26	22	73
Harristown IrlPar	-	176	180	1	4	158	12	10	522	498	1,020	232	1	154	53	0	18	2	0	4	0	11	13

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.