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	Roscommon	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]
Roscommon IrlC Total	557,103	41,369	44,252	729	892	34,083	4,438	5,731	123,031	126,582	249,613	57,406	1,243	25,848	17,925	10	6,229	1,058	416	2,790	1,887	1,097	5,175
Athlone IrlBarony	-	9,087	9,711	159	203	7,246	1,137	1,328	28,177	28,688	56,865	12,439	279	6,020	2,813	1	1,617	198	210	832	469	234	1,169
Ballymoe IrlBarony	-	1,212	1,242	22	5	1,109	95	38	3,627	3,726	7,353	1,789	32	563	924	6	134	16	0	35	79	26	103
Ballintobber IrlBarony	-	11,871	12,836	285	279	9,904	1,328	1,604	35,029	35,568	70,597	17,094	417	8,136	4,906	1	1,773	367	78	903	513	281	1,448
Boyle IrlBarony	-	10,901	11,451	120	246	8,780	983	1,688	32,272	33,833	66,105	14,896	316	6,302	5,412	0	1,572	299	44	531	420	325	1,431
Moycarn IrlBarony	-	1,272	1,308	24	10	1,057	88	163	3,560	3,683	7,243	1,623	26	996	306	2	107	13	40	66	67	55	192
Roscommon IrlBarony	-	7,026	7,704	119	149	5,987	807	910	20,366	21,084	41,450	9,565	173	3,831	3,564	0	1,026	165	44	423	339	176	832

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.