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.".

Show top level table	Massereene Upper	Show Antrim IrlC table

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]
Massereene Upper IrlBarony Total	-	5,763	6,181	17	248	2,810	2,140	1,231	15,688	16,817	32,505	7,699	504	1,541	1,868	1,175	1,650	186	248	450	77	308	819
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
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
Aghagallon IrlPar	-	668	676	0	12	361	200	115	1,741	1,832	3,573	849	62	164	272	210	72	5	10	54	0	30	42
Aghalee IrlPar	-	274	276	0	13	146	76	54	661	750	1,411	340	35	59	114	59	42	10	1	16	4	10	42
Ballinderry IrlPar	-	987	1,026	2	51	553	350	123	2,603	2,743	5,346	1,292	113	326	349	304	126	19	13	42	0	74	129
Glenavy IrlPar	-	1,270	1,295	4	98	721	352	222	3,447	3,557	7,004	1,657	149	428	453	7	485	34	24	68	9	95	177
Blaris IrlPar	-	2,220	2,582	10	88	663	1,266	653	6,356	6,893	13,249	3,126	91	394	401	1,017	651	121	212	183	56	82	389
Magheragall IrlPar	-	591	591	0	8	254	217	120	1,530	1,612	3,142	804	52	178	147	0	311	10	41	54	11	31	61
Magheramesk IrlPar	-	296	298	1	9	148	114	36	832	868	1,700	400	51	71	103	107	37	1	8	22	0	30	46

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