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]
Balrothery IrlBarony Total	-	3,477	3,708	57	143	1,969	775	964	10,419	9,940	20,359	5,427	243	621	2,515	5	983	103	554	277	126	82	595
Baldongan IrlPar	-	14	14	0	0	14	0	0	48	40	88	26	1	10	12	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	3
Ballyboghil IrlPar	-	104	111	0	2	82	18	11	320	344	664	178	18	19	111	0	20	4	0	5	1	4	33
Ballymadun IrlPar	-	82	92	0	2	79	2	11	546	249	795	398	30	3	342	0	3	3	0	16	1	0	43
Balrothery IrlPar	-	919	1,006	11	71	321	394	291	2,415	2,663	5,078	1,214	17	69	303	3	499	41	85	121	76	48	166
Balscaddan IrlPar	-	184	191	6	5	138	24	29	508	503	1,011	247	12	49	125	0	29	1	1	15	15	19	27
Donabate IrlPar	-	57	57	0	0	46	5	6	206	180	386	95	6	8	61	0	10	3	0	3	4	1	16
Garristown IrlPar	-	382	393	8	7	245	117	31	1,093	990	2,083	508	4	92	256	0	140	4	0	8	4	0	47
Grallagh IrlPar	-	38	44	0	0	31	5	8	117	119	236	56	4	6	35	0	6	2	0	2	1	0	7
Hollywood IrlPar	-	164	168	4	2	129	19	20	545	477	1,022	292	29	34	182	0	31	5	0	6	5	0	42
Holmpatrick IrlPar	-	590	627	15	17	188	107	332	1,526	1,583	3,109	757	1	80	183	2	132	11	304	37	7	5	63
Killossery IrlPar	-	52	54	1	0	44	5	5	208	172	380	108	8	5	76	0	11	2	0	3	3	4	17
Lusk IrlPar	-	1,031	1,091	17	39	728	119	244	2,946	2,920	5,866	1,491	106	231	753	0	142	25	167	51	16	3	170
Naul IrlPar	-	117	127	0	3	102	12	13	397	361	758	221	23	37	116	0	25	9	2	6	3	1	34
Palmerston IrlPar	-	37	39	0	1	32	3	4	195	126	321	119	9	7	93	0	3	0	0	7	0	0	12
Westpalstown IrlPar	-	21	21	0	2	18	2	1	206	74	280	170	9	2	149	0	2	0	0	8	0	0	15

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