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]
Gallen IrlBarony Total	-	7,455	7,691	71	211	6,605	441	645	21,038	21,749	42,787	10,291	603	5,821	2,630	0	598	153	16	427	43	182	854
Kildacommoge IrlPar	-	649	669	7	23	606	23	40	1,798	1,844	3,642	897	29	460	337	0	40	4	0	27	0	1	77
Attymass IrlPar	-	573	605	9	23	507	44	54	1,540	1,736	3,276	758	67	421	137	0	58	4	0	71	0	19	72
Bohola IrlPar	-	635	656	0	23	594	22	40	1,842	1,816	3,658	900	50	704	85	0	31	9	0	14	7	36	98
Kilconduff IrlPar	-	1,052	1,072	4	33	880	110	82	2,934	3,017	5,951	1,460	56	1,003	154	0	145	49	2	39	12	37	141
Kilgarvan IrlPar	-	745	762	15	18	658	39	65	2,075	2,155	4,230	1,099	151	488	257	0	39	4	0	158	2	4	119
Killasser IrlPar	-	1,108	1,154	6	31	1,048	45	61	3,172	3,409	6,581	1,565	86	838	513	0	67	16	7	38	0	0	111
Killedan IrlPar	-	1,005	1,008	10	10	796	78	134	2,866	2,875	5,741	1,373	63	694	429	0	108	25	6	35	13	21	108
Meelick IrlPar	-	610	629	4	2	592	7	30	1,779	1,712	3,491	858	34	521	270	0	16	4	0	4	9	0	23
Templemore IrlPar	-	692	730	0	28	619	25	86	2,049	2,086	4,135	958	51	463	370	0	40	7	0	27	0	65	94
Toomore IrlPar	-	648	675	18	29	548	57	70	1,719	1,857	3,576	789	26	409	222	0	76	33	1	22	0	0	47

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