Vision of Britain | 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.".

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Click on the 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 IrlBarony Total	-	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
Kilbride IrlPar	-	1,287	1,432	64	26	1,182	77	173	3,807	3,866	7,673	1,754	42	906	446	0	111	32	0	162	55	39	182
Kilglass IrlPar	-	1,618	1,741	68	65	1,374	125	242	4,521	4,597	9,118	2,078	6	887	878	0	153	15	0	88	51	56	187
Creeve IrlPar	-	456	499	1	50	415	26	58	1,456	1,703	3,159	682	56	336	205	0	36	4	3	12	30	16	51
Aughrim IrlPar	-	760	823	3	9	687	56	80	2,297	2,240	4,537	989	10	611	270	0	63	0	0	27	8	13	43
Bumlin IrlPar	-	855	904	5	18	591	176	137	2,410	2,502	4,912	1,125	21	331	391	0	245	59	19	22	37	9	97
Cloonfinlough IrlPar	-	791	958	29	20	760	69	129	2,178	2,362	4,540	1,048	17	349	498	0	79	11	0	70	24	10	48
Clooncraff IrlPar	-	453	470	19	11	395	41	34	1,264	1,260	2,524	611	4	232	292	0	52	6	0	11	14	14	60
Elphin IrlPar	-	1,109	1,216	22	22	869	180	167	3,298	3,345	6,643	1,609	7	643	449	0	239	40	8	131	92	49	214
Kilcooley IrlPar	-	285	328	13	4	264	32	32	895	884	1,779	431	4	110	235	0	42	5	0	12	23	11	58
Killukin IrlPar	-	576	641	8	9	532	46	63	1,723	1,775	3,498	778	5	210	463	0	58	3	0	22	17	8	76
Kiltrustan IrlPar	-	628	631	1	19	514	63	54	1,691	1,852	3,543	840	44	401	258	0	77	12	15	9	24	4	43
Lissonuffy IrlPar	-	794	859	7	25	669	73	117	2,235	2,364	4,599	1,018	14	598	247	0	76	10	1	56	16	13	31
Ogulla IrlPar	-	307	341	5	3	271	23	47	893	939	1,832	434	0	169	155	0	32	10	0	27	41	27	74
Shankill IrlPar	-	406	468	4	7	381	41	46	1,297	1,372	2,669	599	41	161	262	0	50	9	1	33	42	16	72

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Roscommon IrlBarony:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1831

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.

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.