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.".

Show top level table	Orior Upper	Show Armagh IrlC table

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]
Orior Upper IrlBarony Total	-	5,277	5,503	33	287	3,960	587	956	14,299	15,079	29,378	6,732	166	2,945	1,716	16	780	188	285	574	62	165	750
Loughgilly IrlPar	-	1,901	1,908	16	93	1,400	262	246	5,017	5,183	10,200	2,401	136	813	626	1	347	31	27	411	9	12	293
Newry IrlPar	-	4,162	4,742	35	403	1,522	1,773	1,447	11,980	13,137	25,117	6,073	116	1,016	959	385	2,045	394	706	244	208	202	1,046
Killevy IrlPar	-	3,169	3,239	22	122	2,536	275	428	8,402	8,795	17,197	3,978	137	1,910	946	5	406	38	100	429	7	10	281
Forkill IrlPar	-	1,204	1,231	4	77	1,012	97	122	3,402	3,576	6,978	1,572	26	765	583	0	123	25	4	41	5	90	174
Jonesborough IrlPar	-	307	312	4	11	277	19	16	770	828	1,598	335	6	183	115	0	21	5	1	4	0	16	30

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