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]
Burrishoole IrlBarony Total	-	6,851	7,070	42	166	6,171	187	712	19,922	20,220	40,142	9,551	145	8,021	550	0	308	178	9	66	274	164	423
Achill IrlPar	-	934	966	10	18	856	4	106	2,686	2,591	5,277	1,332	38	1,068	102	0	28	41	6	10	39	10	53
Aghagower IrlPar	-	2,106	2,180	12	40	1,957	64	159	6,061	5,902	11,963	2,872	131	2,225	203	0	84	13	3	70	143	70	133
Burrishoole IrlPar	-	1,987	2,081	6	42	1,760	120	201	5,772	5,989	11,761	2,843	12	2,432	123	0	167	80	0	8	21	19	80
Islandeady IrlPar	-	1,512	1,514	3	15	1,422	11	81	4,288	4,276	8,564	2,144	18	1,932	39	0	31	20	0	35	69	17	43
Kilmaclasser IrlPar	-	605	625	14	69	602	2	21	1,717	1,727	3,444	793	0	751	8	0	18	3	0	5	8	36	66
Kilmeena IrlPar	-	1,446	1,487	4	6	1,221	19	247	4,415	4,585	9,000	2,005	13	1,650	185	0	29	34	0	1	93	51	110
Ballintober IrlPar	-	1,046	1,070	14	31	924	58	88	2,951	3,261	6,212	1,429	72	852	237	0	89	17	1	82	79	21	97

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