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]
Belfast Upper IrlBarony Total	-	10,078	13,376	189	807	1,279	6,092	6,005	31,156	35,864	67,020	15,364	242	618	990	1,007	6,188	1,461	3,513	991	354	125	2,876
Ballymartin IrlPar	-	116	117	1	5	91	14	12	355	366	721	179	25	71	53	0	20	1	0	9	0	0	26
Templepatrick IrlPar	-	716	743	5	14	400	157	186	2,066	2,151	4,217	1,000	81	329	188	0	218	26	92	65	1	2	141
Shankill IrlPar	-	9,014	12,297	185	791	662	5,837	5,798	28,143	32,676	60,819	13,969	150	260	570	927	5,945	1,424	3,406	945	342	115	2,686
Derryaghy IrlPar	-	960	961	0	15	658	183	120	2,535	2,790	5,325	1,174	42	349	417	146	96	12	30	79	3	8	95
Drumbeg IrlPar	-	279	280	0	4	127	98	55	777	849	1,626	362	23	67	88	42	83	10	28	16	5	5	38
Lambeg IrlPar	-	283	286	0	14	118	99	69	861	958	1,819	391	11	57	100	84	61	15	41	11	11	1	41

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