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]
Rathconrath IrlBarony Total	-	2,710	2,805	49	45	2,110	294	401	7,540	7,524	15,064	3,623	204	1,010	1,649	0	413	92	16	136	103	63	453
Dysart IrlPar	-	180	186	0	1	158	14	14	523	497	1,020	259	20	68	150	0	18	1	0	2	0	0	38
Kilmacnevan IrlPar	-	422	446	2	1	333	60	53	1,315	1,289	2,604	582	38	125	300	0	82	10	14	13	0	1	54
Ballymore IrlPar	-	630	651	10	7	488	66	97	1,722	1,772	3,494	825	47	214	341	0	99	16	8	31	69	48	110
Churchtown IrlPar	-	179	181	2	7	154	6	21	512	468	980	266	25	88	122	0	10	5	0	15	1	0	31
Conry IrlPar	-	168	173	2	6	127	20	26	470	460	930	253	13	75	89	0	36	9	0	24	7	2	35
Killare IrlPar	-	700	734	2	11	567	72	95	1,935	1,914	3,849	913	48	311	433	0	89	12	0	6	14	8	115
Ballymorin IrlPar	-	123	126	3	1	97	14	15	344	331	675	168	11	32	104	0	14	2	0	2	3	1	17
Piercetown IrlPar	-	186	193	5	5	147	19	27	548	541	1,089	257	16	57	125	0	28	11	2	17	1	0	42
Rathconrath IrlPar	-	508	524	23	5	381	68	75	1,412	1,450	2,862	674	27	186	302	0	97	26	2	26	8	4	73
Templepatrick IrlPar	-	150	157	1	3	97	25	35	376	389	765	174	13	15	95	0	28	10	1	12	0	0	21

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