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	Louth	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]
Louth IrlC Total	205,962	18,834	19,811	187	552	12,028	3,970	3,813	52,439	55,042	107,481	26,171	853	6,063	8,605	157	4,825	876	1,976	1,833	983	867	3,848
Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown	-	3,206	3,784	34	131	418	1,916	1,450	8,178	9,187	17,365	4,222	26	84	431	946	1,431	336	653	235	80	43	723
Ardee IrlBarony	-	5,068	5,258	75	70	3,318	881	1,059	13,943	14,470	28,413	6,938	277	1,177	2,946	6	1,280	167	394	370	321	254	1,024
Dundalk Lower IrlBarony	-	3,421	3,491	19	139	2,453	377	661	9,564	10,105	19,669	4,665	127	1,701	1,032	0	500	134	477	596	98	103	532
Dundalk Upper IrlBarony	-	4,313	4,728	58	196	2,279	1,684	765	12,054	12,976	25,030	5,997	129	1,448	1,449	9	1,603	343	583	227	206	128	972
Ferrard IrlBarony	-	3,768	3,891	24	79	2,355	776	760	10,498	10,920	21,418	5,347	142	910	2,021	90	1,077	156	246	487	218	177	738
Louth IrlBarony	-	2,264	2,443	11	68	1,623	252	568	6,380	6,571	12,951	3,224	178	827	1,157	52	365	76	276	153	140	205	582

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.