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	Tirhugh	List for Donegal IrlC

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]
Tirhugh IrlBarony Total	-	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
Donegal IrlPar	-	1,105	1,152	15	33	904	176	72	3,087	3,173	6,260	1,488	90	909	193	21	152	28	10	78	7	7	123
Drumhome IrlPar	-	1,482	1,587	61	101	1,232	253	102	4,155	4,346	8,501	2,131	102	1,313	369	76	153	33	15	60	10	3	177
Inishmacsaint IrlPar	-	2,427	2,789	57	101	1,964	296	529	7,152	7,722	14,874	3,816	310	1,587	863	14	366	67	34	484	91	26	316
Kilbarron IrlPar	-	1,788	1,888	24	79	1,212	353	323	5,107	5,414	10,521	2,521	172	1,019	429	0	473	103	38	122	165	68	321
Templecarn IrlPar	-	200	214	2	11	189	9	16	524	544	1,068	262	7	181	32	0	17	3	0	13	9	9	17

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.