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]
Clare IrlBarony Total	-	6,826	7,337	218	505	5,650	969	718	21,216	21,381	42,597	10,638	563	5,982	1,590	170	1,126	279	195	379	354	212	1,156
Athenry IrlPar	-	2,060	2,166	51	33	1,800	263	103	6,196	6,384	12,580	3,137	228	2,060	368	0	340	37	3	50	51	24	301
Tuam IrlPar	-	2,339	2,421	41	88	991	663	767	6,836	7,383	14,219	3,415	121	1,245	116	0	867	179	559	250	78	96	505
Annaghdown IrlPar	-	1,009	1,013	1	5	960	45	8	3,071	3,022	6,093	1,502	33	1,307	25	2	60	17	0	0	58	25	63
Belclare IrlPar	-	391	398	8	4	313	40	45	1,228	1,143	2,371	601	43	367	77	0	59	11	0	28	16	8	55
Cargin IrlPar	-	174	208	11	13	171	19	18	586	598	1,184	309	26	176	45	10	19	7	3	19	4	8	28
Claregalway IrlPar	-	566	585	11	6	522	32	31	1,814	1,774	3,588	983	119	510	238	7	38	20	0	2	49	9	124
Cummer IrlPar	-	287	315	17	25	262	25	28	987	920	1,907	490	46	269	107	5	31	12	11	9	0	3	95
Kilbennan IrlPar	-	501	511	42	13	399	50	62	1,417	1,432	2,849	692	29	298	257	3	65	8	3	21	8	2	58
Kilcloony IrlPar	-	1,225	1,711	21	80	524	404	783	4,089	4,315	8,404	1,981	74	565	412	5	494	267	38	73	53	17	338
Kilkilvery IrlPar	-	189	228	3	31	158	45	25	645	685	1,330	333	19	96	114	18	32	17	10	18	9	6	54
Killeany IrlPar	-	257	286	21	65	250	29	7	784	788	1,572	427	35	295	43	26	14	3	0	11	0	8	52
Killererin IrlPar	-	769	825	12	19	723	52	50	2,368	2,275	4,643	1,196	109	509	366	17	61	23	3	11	97	48	113
Killursa IrlPar	-	717	831	35	95	566	180	85	2,314	2,330	4,644	1,078	17	564	146	45	175	44	11	65	11	30	109
Kilmoylan IrlPar	-	295	320	21	93	276	24	20	893	895	1,788	434	25	256	80	0	30	9	3	18	13	19	52
Killower IrlPar	-	129	144	7	44	115	13	16	405	423	828	202	13	113	39	7	7	10	0	8	5	15	36
Lackagh IrlPar	-	340	369	15	2	321	27	21	1,117	1,073	2,190	593	51	191	242	28	16	2	0	3	60	8	54
Abbeyknockmoy IrlPar	-	525	529	4	2	466	13	50	1,438	1,428	2,866	668	29	568	39	3	14	2	2	0	11	6	22

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