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	Leinster	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]
Leinster IProv Total	4,270,213	292,729	344,314	3,715	7,967	186,177	75,040	83,097	927,877	981,836	1,909,713	465,953	20,789	87,819	162,417	3,212	93,880	24,891	31,440	24,934	16,571	11,146	76,785
Carlow IrlC	211,440	13,275	14,609	109	395	8,163	2,581	3,865	40,149	41,839	81,988	19,845	1,010	5,694	6,613	56	3,449	510	797	1,175	541	493	3,216
County of the City of Dublin IrlC	3,240	16,042	40,459	152	889	212	19,824	20,423	91,557	112,598	204,155	50,234	14	26	508	155	23,576	8,620	10,820	3,612	2,903	556	11,574
Dublin IrlC	188,160	23,819	31,570	369	1,136	10,127	8,769	12,674	82,299	93,713	176,012	43,120	990	1,936	12,967	309	10,595	5,612	4,855	2,933	2,923	743	10,237
Kildare IrlC	381,818	17,155	18,771	158	388	11,880	3,315	3,576	54,472	53,952	108,424	27,625	1,632	3,208	14,107	239	4,311	1,245	900	888	1,095	1,180	3,851
Kilkenny IrlC	469,174	27,248	28,823	274	521	19,727	4,271	4,825	83,090	86,855	169,945	41,653	3,071	10,372	16,893	124	5,658	1,006	2,078	1,440	1,011	912	6,245
Offaly IrlC	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
Longford IrlC	228,358	19,418	20,438	286	529	15,461	2,553	2,424	55,310	57,248	112,558	25,459	888	8,228	11,309	6	3,100	369	286	1,092	181	123	3,516
Louth IrlC	205,962	18,834	19,811	187	552	12,028	3,970	3,813	52,439	55,042	107,481	26,171	853	6,063	8,605	157	4,825	876	1,976	1,833	983	867	3,848
Meath IrlC	488,758	29,796	31,632	333	597	22,396	4,575	4,661	88,993	87,833	176,826	44,204	2,102	6,894	23,045	131	6,497	1,017	1,438	1,710	1,370	1,224	6,565
Laoighis IrlC	476,181	23,783	25,403	409	468	17,164	4,367	3,872	72,469	73,382	145,851	35,717	1,837	9,594	13,412	96	6,201	996	1,203	1,387	991	1,233	4,778
Westmeath IrlC	370,053	23,803	25,331	295	474	16,824	3,694	4,813	67,700	69,172	136,872	32,815	1,222	7,142	14,766	285	4,637	841	882	1,836	1,204	866	4,936
Wexford IrlC	401,413	29,923	32,856	529	790	21,465	6,155	5,236	87,995	94,718	182,713	45,414	3,878	10,683	15,321	169	7,994	1,306	2,176	3,194	693	638	7,347
Wicklow IrlC	388,696	18,412	19,970	196	309	11,649	3,148	5,173	61,052	60,505	121,557	29,295	1,517	6,072	11,319	190	4,385	785	1,883	1,828	1,316	1,316	4,565

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.