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	Donegal	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]
Donegal IrlC Total	896,000	50,171	52,739	659	2,300	38,178	7,204	7,357	141,845	147,304	289,149	68,851	4,055	34,836	13,330	910	8,700	1,270	1,423	3,404	923	2,226	5,308
Banagh IrlBarony	-	6,596	6,914	70	190	5,602	415	897	18,973	19,612	38,585	8,628	207	6,218	656	37	631	94	432	332	21	48	485
Boylagh IrlBarony	-	3,366	3,609	42	275	3,241	146	222	9,834	9,941	19,775	4,567	216	3,389	380	40	235	40	90	175	2	37	250
Ennishowen IrlBarony	-	9,741	10,138	154	346	7,488	1,022	1,628	26,975	28,242	55,217	13,442	856	6,780	2,668	24	1,388	286	339	680	421	742	951
Kilmacrenan IrlBarony	-	12,452	13,064	169	728	9,352	2,371	1,341	35,390	36,208	71,598	16,929	813	8,658	3,048	362	2,605	263	290	725	165	734	1,263
Raphoe IrlBarony	-	11,728	12,103	71	456	7,712	2,134	2,257	32,657	34,016	66,673	16,085	1,404	5,342	5,002	334	2,693	349	169	733	59	540	1,495
Tirhugh IrlBarony	-	6,288	6,911	153	305	4,783	1,116	1,012	18,016	19,285	37,301	9,200	559	4,449	1,576	113	1,148	238	103	759	255	125	864

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.