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	Shillelagh	List for Wicklow 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]
Shillelagh IrlBarony Total	-	2,186	2,361	15	33	1,580	316	465	7,099	7,105	14,204	3,386	157	754	1,248	3	512	62	198	379	73	53	350
Fennagh IrlPar	-	714	769	7	12	550	92	127	2,100	2,224	4,324	1,064	60	309	452	0	114	28	29	48	24	6	166
Aghowle IrlPar	-	477	496	3	7	322	44	130	1,482	1,495	2,977	702	31	244	195	0	66	11	78	73	4	10	55
Moyacomb IrlPar	-	779	801	5	13	568	135	98	2,499	2,378	4,877	1,305	70	436	445	3	208	32	26	63	22	14	145
Crosspatrick IrlPar	-	240	250	2	1	181	19	50	725	756	1,481	331	20	53	152	0	54	15	0	20	17	15	58
Carnew IrlPar	-	1,041	1,163	8	23	837	190	136	3,392	3,473	6,865	1,672	135	320	625	0	301	26	21	205	39	31	210
Crecrin IrlPar	-	76	82	0	0	56	8	18	267	243	510	119	4	46	40	0	10	0	8	11	0	1	4
Liscolman IrlPar	-	110	114	0	3	82	6	26	367	387	754	175	5	66	56	0	11	3	17	9	8	1	13
Mullinacuff IrlPar	-	331	355	2	0	216	54	85	1,072	1,072	2,144	501	26	113	164	3	84	4	50	53	4	6	39

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.