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	Westmeath	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]
Westmeath IrlC Total	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
Brawny IrlBarony	-	1,222	1,386	17	34	449	379	558	3,488	3,908	7,396	1,645	13	326	281	67	424	82	172	195	85	45	232
Clonlonan IrlBarony	-	2,243	2,457	37	59	1,813	440	204	6,189	6,641	12,830	2,972	59	625	1,226	4	515	62	16	291	174	100	479
Corkaree IrlBarony	-	1,073	1,105	9	12	837	152	116	3,491	3,139	6,630	1,663	94	194	965	0	230	27	39	91	23	8	307
Delvin IrlBarony	-	1,760	1,870	12	15	1,257	233	380	4,901	5,083	9,984	2,530	87	496	1,399	0	296	88	5	111	48	14	395
Fore IrlBarony	-	2,776	2,907	46	56	2,169	336	402	7,641	7,918	15,559	3,763	49	933	1,933	6	428	78	29	146	161	179	580
Farbill IrlBarony	-	1,491	1,590	9	26	1,107	240	243	4,437	4,309	8,746	2,111	73	442	1,091	1	315	36	21	92	40	109	372
Fartullagh IrlBarony	-	1,484	1,519	12	18	1,156	215	148	4,473	4,430	8,903	2,110	174	468	1,005	69	232	41	11	60	50	17	366
Kilkenny West IrlBarony	-	1,963	2,194	36	68	1,189	196	809	5,517	5,642	11,159	2,516	89	769	843	0	247	80	19	294	175	109	330
Moyashel and Magheradernon IrlBarony	-	2,261	2,317	15	57	1,048	464	805	6,319	6,413	12,732	3,078	94	407	1,362	19	655	91	264	107	79	24	378
Moycashel IrlBarony	-	2,876	3,146	34	52	2,166	445	535	7,924	8,243	16,167	4,002	61	1,105	1,453	119	473	93	260	202	236	184	580
Moygoish IrlBarony	-	1,944	2,035	19	32	1,523	300	212	5,780	5,922	11,702	2,802	225	367	1,559	0	409	71	30	111	30	14	464
Rathconrath IrlBarony	-	2,710	2,805	49	45	2,110	294	401	7,540	7,524	15,064	3,623	204	1,010	1,649	0	413	92	16	136	103	63	453

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.