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]
Garrycastle IrlBarony Total	-	4,949	5,181	58	99	3,819	720	642	14,368	14,613	28,981	6,947	190	3,143	1,981	15	977	151	50	321	119	53	622
Kilcomin IrlPar	-	308	308	0	4	217	17	74	878	913	1,791	439	17	145	209	0	30	1	5	5	27	8	49
Clonmacnoise IrlPar	-	753	797	6	19	609	89	99	2,139	2,285	4,424	994	21	604	181	0	113	11	4	55	5	4	75
Gallen IrlPar	-	882	917	9	3	668	107	142	2,509	2,511	5,020	1,194	35	518	357	0	141	24	29	73	17	5	80
Wheery IrlPar	-	610	637	8	13	460	88	89	1,746	1,809	3,555	820	11	389	235	2	106	23	5	33	16	6	104
Lemanaghan IrlPar	-	1,000	1,067	8	24	776	157	134	2,897	2,890	5,787	1,417	69	474	567	6	196	22	8	55	20	13	141
Lusmagh IrlPar	-	557	566	1	3	545	11	10	1,717	1,703	3,420	832	24	649	117	1	18	3	0	13	7	2	33
Reynagh IrlPar	-	803	840	22	29	486	222	132	2,331	2,390	4,721	1,188	20	266	399	3	334	54	4	69	39	21	150
Tisaran IrlPar	-	340	353	4	8	271	46	36	1,018	1,014	2,032	498	10	239	125	3	69	14	0	23	15	2	39

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