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]
Upper Ossory IrlBarony Total	-	6,161	6,567	115	164	5,084	798	685	18,412	18,755	37,167	9,229	789	2,956	3,453	28	1,048	263	72	399	221	135	1,246
Abbeyleix IrlPar	-	919	1,016	21	12	291	163	562	2,918	3,072	5,990	1,391	51	385	355	8	222	67	188	72	43	61	228
Attanagh IrlPar	-	120	132	9	7	115	9	8	375	375	750	188	32	81	49	0	17	1	1	5	2	6	36
Rosconnell IrlPar	-	133	141	7	6	117	16	8	399	396	795	220	20	65	100	0	28	1	0	6	0	4	26
Durrow IrlPar	-	497	549	7	22	302	113	134	1,359	1,552	2,911	726	37	56	354	6	141	26	18	60	28	17	130
Erke IrlPar	-	951	988	7	7	868	55	65	2,678	2,887	5,565	1,271	89	557	425	0	67	21	1	32	79	75	184
Aharney IrlPar	-	363	377	14	7	301	40	36	1,062	1,094	2,156	526	36	92	303	2	47	11	3	25	7	12	82
Aghaboe IrlPar	-	1,014	1,101	19	21	831	158	112	3,028	3,170	6,198	1,511	154	385	588	0	206	40	20	105	13	3	219
Aghmacart IrlPar	-	566	597	10	13	496	63	38	1,627	1,746	3,373	781	72	340	219	0	79	12	4	54	1	0	122
Bordwell IrlPar	-	143	151	3	3	118	16	17	442	427	869	223	29	69	87	0	20	8	0	7	3	1	29
Coolkerry IrlPar	-	60	65	0	3	57	2	6	208	167	375	106	9	40	44	0	6	0	4	1	2	0	20
Donaghmore IrlPar	-	203	216	3	7	152	35	29	614	597	1,211	290	22	65	129	20	27	11	0	14	2	0	28
Kildellig IrlPar	-	49	50	1	3	46	1	3	158	145	303	70	5	13	43	0	1	2	0	4	2	0	8
Killermogh IrlPar	-	190	199	4	2	161	24	14	549	529	1,078	246	34	83	83	0	22	4	1	17	2	1	38
Kyle IrlPar	-	312	321	5	9	182	19	120	886	924	1,810	413	30	197	111	6	25	4	1	15	24	23	50
Offerlane IrlPar	-	1,608	1,714	21	60	1,411	209	94	4,943	4,972	9,915	2,624	104	873	1,063	0	281	81	5	88	129	80	295
Rathdowney IrlPar	-	1,120	1,201	17	25	827	218	156	3,296	3,358	6,654	1,618	174	425	567	0	298	71	26	47	10	9	239
Rathsaran IrlPar	-	140	145	4	0	121	14	10	431	437	868	214	12	104	62	0	23	4	0	4	5	0	34
Skirk IrlPar	-	147	157	6	6	150	3	4	466	445	911	244	45	105	59	0	12	7	1	11	4	1	33

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Upper Ossory 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.