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.".

Show top level table	Maryborough East	Show Laoighis IrlC table

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]
Maryborough East IrlBarony Total	-	1,648	1,896	38	25	1,148	415	333	5,455	5,476	10,931	2,684	52	617	863	4	645	112	82	145	164	196	484
Clonenagh and Clonagheen IrlPar	-	3,003	3,084	53	39	2,237	583	264	8,950	9,186	18,136	4,407	146	1,047	1,978	18	842	72	101	110	93	205	516
Fossy Or Timahoe IrlPar	-	263	276	0	1	246	16	14	1,006	898	1,904	530	10	172	172	0	41	9	0	30	96	42	121
Kilcolmanbane IrlPar	-	183	187	1	2	162	12	13	627	596	1,223	315	3	106	133	1	22	9	6	10	25	17	49
Borris IrlPar	-	780	963	23	17	403	324	236	2,590	2,710	5,300	1,310	21	157	342	3	508	82	48	88	61	88	276
Dysartenos IrlPar	-	389	403	7	7	335	39	29	1,257	1,231	2,488	625	29	156	319	0	58	9	9	8	37	25	96
Straboe IrlPar	-	337	375	11	2	301	35	39	1,113	1,063	2,176	527	7	182	215	0	44	9	15	26	29	36	51

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