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 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]
Down IrlC Total	436,900	62,629	66,233	482	3,146	34,447	17,979	13,807	169,416	182,596	352,012	82,999	4,568	20,483	19,048	5,787	18,252	2,256	3,387	7,476	1,742	2,874	11,028
Ardes IrlBarony	-	8,093	8,817	94	523	3,698	2,428	2,691	19,907	23,203	43,110	9,304	719	1,404	2,987	277	2,513	263	470	609	62	124	1,293
Castlereagh IrlBarony	-	10,411	11,601	96	623	5,969	2,886	2,746	29,568	31,971	61,539	14,138	997	2,915	3,844	1,473	2,445	493	541	935	495	604	2,034
Dufferin IrlBarony	-	1,688	1,754	18	50	849	542	363	4,692	5,150	9,842	2,248	237	479	831	44	439	58	44	97	19	10	371
Iveagh Lower IrlBarony	-	11,503	11,900	56	463	5,105	4,863	1,932	32,115	33,253	65,368	16,131	695	3,206	2,958	2,923	4,187	294	576	1,051	241	542	1,809
Iveagh Upper IrlBarony	-	15,348	15,781	113	658	10,022	3,346	2,413	40,078	43,303	83,381	19,587	946	6,278	4,545	25	4,258	449	443	2,379	264	597	2,708
Kinelarty IrlBarony	-	3,773	3,874	9	127	2,598	746	530	10,280	10,961	21,241	5,100	285	1,666	847	344	726	109	41	916	166	259	501
Lecale IrlBarony	-	5,914	6,142	41	205	3,080	1,322	1,740	16,212	17,144	33,356	8,274	455	1,864	1,868	142	1,724	242	584	1,188	207	322	1,218
Mourne IrlBarony	-	2,726	2,754	25	175	1,883	430	441	7,298	7,508	14,806	3,470	132	1,867	359	186	332	80	212	170	132	266	375
Newry Lordship Of IrlBarony	-	3,173	3,610	30	322	1,243	1,416	951	9,266	10,103	19,369	4,747	102	804	809	373	1,628	268	476	131	156	150	719

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.

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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.