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.".

List for top level	Athlone	List for Roscommon IrlC

click on 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]
Athlone IrlBarony Total	-	9,087	9,711	159	203	7,246	1,137	1,328	28,177	28,688	56,865	12,439	279	6,020	2,813	1	1,617	198	210	832	469	234	1,169
Athleague IrlPar	-	907	966	16	15	632	120	214	2,693	2,668	5,361	1,341	32	635	275	0	183	23	0	100	93	39	146
Taghboy IrlPar	-	573	602	16	4	414	61	127	1,654	1,652	3,306	809	18	425	182	0	102	9	0	26	47	9	58
Cam IrlPar	-	730	730	5	15	689	18	23	2,101	2,013	4,114	941	15	382	417	0	65	7	1	54	0	18	42
Drum IrlPar	-	864	964	8	16	764	72	128	2,456	2,501	4,957	1,125	24	645	255	0	87	8	2	68	36	38	129
Dysart IrlPar	-	285	295	7	2	242	24	29	839	822	1,661	382	7	225	70	0	35	3	0	24	18	9	24
Fuerty IrlPar	-	977	1,069	37	20	860	97	112	2,795	2,816	5,611	1,349	68	734	260	0	114	32	0	92	49	25	127
Killinvoy IrlPar	-	430	462	11	5	332	70	60	1,213	1,189	2,402	590	25	202	190	0	86	6	1	42	38	10	52
Kilmeane IrlPar	-	467	515	5	9	394	56	65	1,288	1,390	2,678	627	21	306	154	0	70	6	1	38	31	4	57
Kiltoom IrlPar	-	840	849	9	32	717	76	56	2,424	2,524	4,948	1,134	21	377	453	1	173	6	2	100	1	9	46
Rahara IrlPar	-	287	302	3	12	253	8	41	823	807	1,630	401	13	239	98	0	9	0	0	25	17	10	40
Roscommon IrlPar	-	1,372	1,654	46	72	818	445	391	4,103	4,271	8,374	2,109	22	502	495	0	516	101	20	358	95	25	266
St Johns IrlPar	-	591	608	5	24	491	51	66	1,566	1,570	3,136	745	11	458	122	0	68	10	1	53	22	16	61
St Peters IrlPar	-	1,109	1,302	14	42	499	404	399	3,436	3,881	7,317	1,566	12	424	194	0	510	73	132	162	59	21	275
Taghmaconnell IrlPar	-	764	767	19	6	610	36	121	2,180	2,265	4,445	1,057	13	631	191	0	43	14	67	22	76	36	148
Tisrara IrlPar	-	616	649	9	7	500	86	63	1,789	1,703	3,492	913	14	553	97	0	153	13	0	47	36	18	49

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.

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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.