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	Longford	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]
Longford IrlC Total	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
Shrule IrlBarony	-	1,711	1,821	18	52	1,276	279	266	4,757	4,962	9,719	2,094	66	626	856	0	328	57	1	144	16	5	238
Ardagh IrlBarony	-	3,307	3,431	55	55	2,408	700	323	9,702	10,197	19,899	4,559	67	1,009	2,399	0	882	68	4	87	43	25	775
Granard IrlBarony	-	5,130	5,157	37	175	4,549	482	126	14,575	14,694	29,269	6,841	242	2,270	3,606	6	476	23	168	4	46	6	919
Longford IrlBarony	-	4,549	5,099	103	122	3,599	487	1,013	12,977	13,699	26,676	5,763	214	2,401	1,777	0	641	109	46	541	34	53	739
Moydow IrlBarony	-	2,222	2,351	26	43	1,848	201	302	6,134	6,486	12,620	2,841	104	870	1,436	0	250	46	12	112	11	5	350
Rathcline IrlBarony	-	2,499	2,579	47	82	1,781	404	394	7,165	7,210	14,375	3,361	195	1,052	1,235	0	523	66	55	204	31	29	495

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.