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	Offaly	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]
Offaly IrlC Total	456,960	24,256	26,072	300	515	17,162	3,984	4,926	71,287	72,938	144,225	34,663	1,554	11,535	11,727	202	5,047	1,019	1,068	1,427	1,084	872	4,326
Ballyboy IrlBarony	-	1,397	1,475	26	29	1,168	204	103	4,066	4,088	8,154	2,078	51	915	547	10	276	76	14	82	107	115	245
Ballybritt IrlBarony	-	3,117	3,653	32	101	1,488	754	1,411	9,054	9,725	18,779	4,246	197	951	1,222	30	892	210	299	260	185	166	1,009
Ballycowan IrlBarony	-	3,004	3,316	53	78	2,114	714	488	8,843	9,192	18,035	4,390	33	1,176	1,737	0	898	172	51	214	109	75	373
Clonlisk IrlBarony	-	2,682	2,705	10	26	1,761	250	694	7,726	8,039	15,765	3,902	110	1,381	1,681	1	335	60	49	50	235	102	521
Coolestown IrlBarony	-	1,594	1,718	19	28	980	318	420	4,790	4,848	9,638	2,299	186	243	1,004	2	397	77	284	64	42	23	270
Eglish IrlBarony	-	1,074	1,174	24	24	885	106	183	3,206	3,197	6,403	1,547	170	539	516	19	98	46	34	113	12	12	195
Garrycastle IrlBarony	-	4,949	5,181	58	99	3,819	720	642	14,368	14,613	28,981	6,947	190	3,143	1,981	15	977	151	50	321	119	53	622
Geashill IrlBarony	-	1,397	1,464	30	50	1,093	152	219	4,103	4,191	8,294	1,961	162	767	631	0	220	24	66	75	16	106	253
Kilcoursey IrlBarony	-	1,478	1,656	7	26	1,003	323	330	4,361	4,413	8,774	2,025	225	453	620	125	327	60	60	114	41	24	204
Philipstown Lower IrlBarony	-	1,274	1,312	12	27	860	170	282	3,687	3,760	7,447	1,775	95	440	701	0	236	71	130	55	47	52	257
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony	-	1,652	1,696	18	21	1,385	197	114	4,967	4,897	9,864	2,370	59	1,446	463	0	262	47	3	30	60	96	234
Warrenstown IrlBarony	-	638	722	11	6	606	76	40	2,116	1,975	4,091	1,123	76	81	624	0	129	25	28	49	111	48	143

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.