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]
Shelmalier IrlBarony Total	-	3,473	3,705	61	99	2,856	487	362	9,824	10,468	20,292	5,208	410	1,097	2,256	44	735	128	123	319	96	37	698
Skreen IrlPar	-	123	134	0	5	106	15	13	347	346	693	171	28	23	85	0	20	5	0	9	1	0	5
Adamstown IrlPar	-	610	648	13	15	492	70	86	1,651	1,824	3,475	906	89	433	230	0	112	10	0	30	2	1	177
Ballyhoge IrlPar	-	168	169	3	7	123	14	32	443	485	928	253	5	100	101	0	27	2	4	7	7	9	32
Clonmore IrlPar	-	268	284	3	4	217	44	23	743	828	1,571	406	49	165	114	0	55	6	0	10	7	4	68
Ardcandrisk IrlPar	-	35	36	0	2	33	2	1	126	116	242	69	12	13	25	0	7	0	0	12	0	0	21
Ardcavan IrlPar	-	133	146	4	9	99	30	17	436	422	858	223	23	31	104	0	38	5	11	8	3	7	18
Ardcolm IrlPar	-	118	141	2	12	105	18	18	375	376	751	175	22	29	79	0	24	6	2	10	3	1	10
Artramon IrlPar	-	108	126	1	2	90	20	16	310	351	661	178	17	16	104	0	25	6	0	7	3	1	11
Ballynaslaney IrlPar	-	152	152	0	0	134	18	0	447	469	916	221	0	68	115	0	32	0	6	0	0	0	0
Ballymitty IrlPar	-	105	109	4	1	90	16	3	289	319	608	160	13	26	64	2	30	4	0	17	4	0	28
Carrick IrlPar	-	162	168	2	3	130	15	23	512	542	1,054	267	19	9	170	0	25	16	8	9	11	1	68
Clongeen IrlPar	-	434	450	9	9	389	35	26	1,201	1,248	2,449	621	35	179	282	14	67	12	0	23	9	0	87
Coolstuff IrlPar	-	161	166	2	0	153	8	5	513	486	999	259	33	74	79	0	12	4	5	50	2	0	62
Horetown IrlPar	-	196	202	3	5	180	14	8	582	567	1,149	314	19	75	146	10	40	8	1	7	8	1	49
Inch IrlPar	-	75	77	0	4	68	6	3	187	220	407	114	8	30	52	3	14	2	0	3	2	0	11
Kilgarvan IrlPar	-	167	177	7	5	169	2	6	427	471	898	225	13	90	94	2	11	3	1	11	0	0	26
Killurin IrlPar	-	109	112	2	0	51	22	39	329	331	660	177	6	48	47	0	37	6	26	1	6	14	30
Kilpatrick IrlPar	-	135	162	9	13	115	21	26	409	443	852	214	19	14	120	0	28	12	4	9	8	1	18
St Margarets IrlPar	-	149	166	2	5	116	19	31	388	451	839	192	16	45	98	0	20	3	0	8	2	1	16
Taghmon IrlPar	-	524	553	2	6	391	135	27	1,302	1,501	2,803	676	46	105	216	13	161	19	12	91	13	2	92
Tikillin IrlPar	-	189	220	3	9	140	41	39	603	582	1,185	326	24	20	161	0	56	8	35	14	8	3	26

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