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	Connaught	List for Ireland Dep

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]
Connaught IProv Total	3,660,451	224,638	239,387	3,800	6,527	184,528	23,613	31,246	660,498	683,416	1,343,914	319,133	11,806	167,100	71,882	567	31,590	6,521	7,278	13,242	9,147	5,554	30,675
Galway IrlC	1,301,236	62,508	65,986	1,412	1,478	51,448	6,950	7,588	189,204	192,360	381,564	94,096	4,502	49,883	21,043	297	9,128	2,094	1,576	3,334	2,239	1,373	9,755
Leitrim IrlC	370,519	24,200	25,481	510	787	20,937	2,085	2,459	69,451	72,073	141,524	32,017	1,240	18,639	6,203	181	2,743	554	43	1,329	1,085	746	3,380
Mayo IrlC	1,023,273	62,367	65,207	699	2,085	52,668	4,895	7,644	179,595	186,733	366,328	86,782	3,860	50,219	17,238	4	6,896	1,483	1,210	3,609	2,263	1,449	6,836
Roscommon IrlC	557,103	41,369	44,252	729	892	34,083	4,438	5,731	123,031	126,582	249,613	57,406	1,243	25,848	17,925	10	6,229	1,058	416	2,790	1,887	1,097	5,175
Sligo IrlC	408,320	29,588	32,203	404	1,193	22,750	3,938	5,515	83,730	88,035	171,765	40,849	744	20,889	7,764	3	5,031	855	2,150	2,004	1,409	774	4,196

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.