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	Antrim	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]
Antrim IrlC Total	492,000	54,474	59,959	539	2,485	27,121	18,785	14,053	152,178	164,731	316,909	73,586	3,760	18,098	13,152	3,471	20,530	2,896	5,606	4,401	1,672	1,775	10,099
Antrim Lower IrlBarony	-	3,899	3,995	48	99	2,286	953	756	10,518	11,031	21,549	4,890	365	1,618	813	13	1,356	84	165	182	294	269	706
Antrim Upper IrlBarony	-	2,782	2,861	35	171	1,306	942	613	7,518	8,126	15,644	3,734	241	806	899	15	1,296	105	113	213	46	41	583
Belfast Lower IrlBarony	-	4,195	4,373	28	139	2,384	1,140	849	11,530	12,405	23,935	5,601	375	1,661	1,155	113	1,394	170	402	226	105	99	860
Belfast Upper IrlBarony	-	10,078	13,376	189	807	1,279	6,092	6,005	31,156	35,864	67,020	15,364	242	618	990	1,007	6,188	1,461	3,513	991	354	125	2,876
Cary IrlBarony	-	4,220	4,485	21	126	2,859	733	893	10,977	12,299	23,276	5,282	260	2,258	1,007	5	895	135	138	551	33	58	647
Dunluce Lower IrlBarony	-	2,304	2,402	16	62	1,411	513	478	6,048	6,689	12,737	2,926	136	985	829	1	651	74	126	99	25	112	390
Dunluce Upper IrlBarony	-	3,418	3,515	23	99	2,064	883	568	9,482	10,175	19,657	4,622	194	1,423	666	12	1,301	129	137	435	325	240	613
Glenarm Lower IrlBarony	-	1,697	1,819	18	67	1,228	203	388	4,942	5,189	10,131	2,356	151	1,030	476	35	339	74	105	130	16	14	271
Glenarm Upper IrlBarony	-	1,243	1,495	1	64	531	676	288	3,384	3,981	7,365	1,557	57	329	276	118	365	68	154	113	77	61	289
Kilconway IrlBarony	-	4,378	4,570	51	165	3,151	761	658	11,756	12,183	23,939	5,399	411	2,391	895	525	596	80	131	249	121	131	545
Massereene Lower IrlBarony	-	1,652	1,681	4	43	1,004	176	501	4,330	4,655	8,985	2,104	204	514	761	0	291	31	163	116	24	164	304
Massereene Upper IrlBarony	-	5,763	6,181	17	248	2,810	2,140	1,231	15,688	16,817	32,505	7,699	504	1,541	1,868	1,175	1,650	186	248	450	77	308	819
Toome Lower IrlBarony	-	4,656	4,998	60	327	2,223	2,190	585	12,934	13,320	26,254	6,110	202	1,430	846	439	2,267	182	195	392	157	119	748
Toome Upper IrlBarony	-	4,189	4,208	28	68	2,585	1,383	240	11,915	11,997	23,912	5,942	418	1,494	1,671	13	1,941	117	16	254	18	34	448
Carrickfergus IrlBarony	-	1,497	1,697	29	104	561	684	452	4,097	4,609	8,706	1,910	49	331	346	3	693	112	190	145	41	72	379

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.