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]
Decies Within Drum IrlBarony Total	-	3,364	3,633	22	59	3,058	275	300	11,989	11,834	23,823	6,018	360	1,461	3,248	0	433	98	221	133	64	34	790
Aglish IrlPar	-	540	575	3	21	475	73	27	1,876	1,813	3,689	925	43	194	516	0	99	20	15	34	4	5	90
Ardmore IrlPar	-	1,078	1,146	11	16	998	76	72	3,644	3,674	7,318	1,747	88	483	962	0	122	12	47	30	3	3	206
Clashmore IrlPar	-	662	694	5	11	591	60	43	2,422	2,352	4,774	1,188	53	297	640	0	99	38	13	36	12	6	154
Kilmolash IrlPar	-	207	219	1	10	192	17	10	684	713	1,397	364	33	63	210	0	27	4	1	26	0	2	64
Kinsalebeg IrlPar	-	303	409	1	2	345	25	39	1,426	1,354	2,780	738	78	168	387	0	42	12	15	10	26	5	127
Ringagonagh IrlPar	-	607	636	0	22	448	38	150	1,976	2,038	4,014	1,014	42	231	463	0	64	7	154	34	19	2	97
Dungarvan IrlPar	-	1,517	1,945	17	54	417	664	864	5,030	5,831	10,861	2,517	22	195	446	2	878	77	569	286	42	48	509

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