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	Ennishowen	List for Donegal 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]
Ennishowen IrlBarony Total	-	9,741	10,138	154	346	7,488	1,022	1,628	26,975	28,242	55,217	13,442	856	6,780	2,668	24	1,388	286	339	680	421	742	951
Burt IrlPar	-	310	315	0	19	240	37	38	921	938	1,859	454	54	30	308	12	32	6	3	6	3	58	70
Clonca IrlPar	-	1,101	1,129	11	43	900	95	134	3,268	3,414	6,682	1,598	47	1,027	246	0	140	18	90	23	7	3	63
Clonmany IrlPar	-	1,126	1,158	33	44	975	67	116	3,261	3,189	6,450	1,701	13	1,296	37	2	155	40	13	121	24	45	40
Culdaff IrlPar	-	1,052	1,117	20	35	696	96	325	2,900	3,095	5,995	1,319	76	579	152	0	124	11	21	312	44	162	130
Desertegny IrlPar	-	348	359	3	6	310	17	32	995	918	1,913	578	12	429	37	0	38	4	51	7	0	0	6
Donagh IrlPar	-	968	1,051	22	60	718	175	158	2,562	2,753	5,315	1,301	143	650	219	0	206	52	2	28	1	2	68
Fahan Lower IrlPar	-	1,019	1,075	13	12	711	170	194	2,720	2,894	5,614	1,297	41	549	267	0	235	63	35	47	60	87	116
Fahan Upper IrlPar	-	585	610	9	49	448	65	97	1,548	1,761	3,309	764	28	236	128	1	94	15	16	58	188	68	72
Inch IrlPar	-	198	199	0	3	156	25	18	565	570	1,135	261	35	60	122	9	18	4	7	6	0	41	15
Moville Lower IrlPar	-	1,017	1,098	13	39	737	109	252	2,791	2,994	5,785	1,327	181	642	130	0	132	46	88	42	66	149	156
Moville Upper IrlPar	-	896	899	17	15	685	56	158	2,382	2,520	4,902	1,284	82	901	189	0	60	18	13	3	18	8	62
Muff IrlPar	-	1,057	1,064	13	20	854	108	102	2,891	3,024	5,915	1,483	138	330	825	0	152	9	0	26	3	114	146

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.