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	Waterford	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]
Waterford IrlC Total	395,690	21,234	24,364	180	668	15,202	3,535	5,627	72,647	75,586	148,233	36,988	2,812	6,498	16,264	12	4,941	832	3,257	1,843	529	636	6,112
Waterford IrlCity	-	3,614	5,827	31	245	270	2,323	3,234	12,570	16,251	28,821	6,420	96	63	306	32	2,538	715	1,747	692	231	102	1,709
Coshmore and Coshbride IrlBarony	-	4,292	5,212	38	152	2,097	950	2,165	14,615	15,047	29,662	7,251	230	1,776	1,871	0	1,285	203	1,423	291	172	379	1,090
Decies Within Drum IrlBarony	-	3,364	3,633	22	59	3,058	275	300	11,989	11,834	23,823	6,018	360	1,461	3,248	0	433	98	221	133	64	34	790
Decies Without Drum IrlBarony	-	5,333	6,069	47	157	3,841	978	1,250	18,465	19,274	37,739	9,368	778	1,578	4,116	2	1,428	166	661	542	97	70	1,649
Gaultiere IrlBarony	-	1,536	1,651	8	61	1,063	144	444	4,883	5,326	10,209	2,531	179	316	1,172	0	209	105	216	264	70	13	376
Glenahiry IrlBarony	-	739	739	1	6	586	51	102	2,610	2,560	5,170	1,275	174	228	634	0	81	8	62	85	3	9	236
Middlethird IrlBarony	-	1,931	2,362	8	81	1,621	305	436	6,689	7,345	14,034	3,559	366	651	1,850	5	368	143	57	70	49	38	908
Upperthird IrlBarony	-	4,039	4,698	56	152	2,936	832	930	13,396	14,200	27,596	6,986	725	488	3,373	5	1,137	109	617	458	74	93	1,063

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.