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	Moycashel	List for Westmeath 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]
Moycashel IrlBarony Total	-	2,876	3,146	34	52	2,166	445	535	7,924	8,243	16,167	4,002	61	1,105	1,453	119	473	93	260	202	236	184	580
Durrow IrlPar	-	516	524	10	7	442	48	34	1,583	1,562	3,145	811	9	366	289	2	73	11	26	9	26	14	43
Ardnurcher Or Horseleap IrlPar	-	663	691	11	10	536	94	61	1,840	1,861	3,701	944	41	347	314	41	78	22	10	38	53	36	120
Kilcumreragh IrlPar	-	629	748	4	7	552	79	117	1,798	1,989	3,787	864	43	235	381	13	83	10	1	39	59	33	117
Newtown IrlPar	-	453	496	5	9	320	95	81	1,406	1,346	2,752	696	29	154	266	53	76	18	25	41	34	23	122
Dysart IrlPar	-	180	186	0	1	158	14	14	523	497	1,020	259	20	68	150	0	18	1	0	2	0	0	38
Castletownkindalen IrlPar	-	717	772	11	19	586	112	74	2,024	2,038	4,062	983	14	377	314	43	105	12	9	49	60	51	117
Kilbeggan IrlPar	-	732	851	3	13	477	159	215	1,901	2,138	4,039	965	4	150	318	24	184	36	173	49	27	32	146
Rahugh IrlPar	-	207	228	1	1	160	22	46	566	563	1,129	300	3	81	102	0	40	7	27	20	20	9	42

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.