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]
Castlereagh IrlBarony Total	-	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
Drumbeg IrlPar	-	279	280	0	4	127	98	55	777	849	1,626	362	23	67	88	42	83	10	28	16	5	5	38
Lambeg IrlPar	-	283	286	0	14	118	99	69	861	958	1,819	391	11	57	100	84	61	15	41	11	11	1	41
Blaris IrlPar	-	2,220	2,582	10	88	663	1,266	653	6,356	6,893	13,249	3,126	91	394	401	1,017	651	121	212	183	56	82	389
Bangor IrlPar	-	1,678	1,824	12	120	766	482	576	4,223	5,132	9,355	2,002	193	218	652	287	334	63	97	137	21	10	304
Newtown Ards IrlPar	-	1,890	2,339	36	207	886	859	594	4,747	5,234	9,981	2,229	127	334	734	5	808	47	31	139	4	142	246
Comber IrlPar	-	1,485	1,531	29	97	888	257	386	3,991	4,285	8,276	1,899	209	328	558	6	438	54	51	60	195	162	287
Drumbo IrlPar	-	1,481	1,535	2	104	843	412	280	3,830	4,021	7,851	1,839	61	554	240	348	198	32	29	298	79	101	219
Dundonald IrlPar	-	282	285	2	8	210	37	38	819	850	1,669	392	65	97	141	0	54	20	0	8	7	0	72
Holywood IrlPar	-	771	845	8	32	381	146	318	2,086	2,607	4,693	991	94	135	323	1	176	142	21	33	66	29	371
Killyleagh IrlPar	-	1,149	1,215	14	34	447	399	369	3,279	3,538	6,817	1,563	141	263	584	44	337	48	44	92	10	8	246
Killinchy IrlPar	-	1,384	1,400	5	25	830	310	260	3,741	4,079	7,820	1,752	156	575	611	0	298	23	10	70	9	2	223
Killaney IrlPar	-	248	250	0	14	158	62	30	642	656	1,298	304	32	72	108	49	32	3	0	6	2	24	43
Kilmore IrlPar	-	1,228	1,234	20	84	794	228	212	3,230	3,372	6,602	1,669	124	455	226	0	375	53	5	331	100	99	190
Kilmood IrlPar	-	379	387	0	6	251	68	68	1,068	1,151	2,219	502	64	101	202	28	71	5	11	17	3	1	75
Knockbreda IrlPar	-	917	1,704	13	95	497	720	487	4,390	4,678	9,068	2,093	38	168	407	543	391	115	265	97	69	57	256
Saintfield IrlPar	-	1,312	1,375	4	66	889	250	236	3,417	3,737	7,154	1,608	125	421	606	112	217	35	10	73	9	111	236
Tullynakill IrlPar	-	235	244	0	2	143	27	74	657	729	1,386	340	30	75	145	6	34	1	34	15	0	0	51

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