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]
Lecale IrlBarony Total	-	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
Kilmegan IrlPar	-	1,259	1,282	8	69	809	212	261	3,345	3,576	6,921	1,653	36	485	629	1	286	49	60	78	29	138	208
Ardglass IrlPar	-	291	304	3	14	32	55	217	819	809	1,628	420	14	23	15	0	68	30	244	12	14	10	58
Ballee IrlPar	-	447	449	2	14	282	100	67	1,313	1,285	2,598	695	62	164	148	0	136	12	19	154	0	8	106
Ballyculter IrlPar	-	429	431	0	13	227	41	163	1,074	1,147	2,221	601	5	199	168	0	97	20	43	56	13	32	115
Bright IrlPar	-	349	364	0	14	221	50	93	999	1,031	2,030	543	59	145	189	42	49	8	11	18	22	37	101
Down IrlPar	-	1,634	1,738	20	52	665	631	442	4,387	4,816	9,203	2,196	72	242	482	12	778	104	50	417	39	39	401
Dunsfort IrlPar	-	291	303	1	7	129	37	137	823	857	1,680	435	41	81	192	20	46	8	12	35	0	28	61
Inch IrlPar	-	463	475	5	18	363	107	5	1,439	1,418	2,857	712	64	159	135	0	168	8	1	124	53	61	97
Kilclief IrlPar	-	200	205	0	2	119	10	76	567	546	1,113	312	28	95	37	0	10	4	77	61	0	3	15
Rathmullan IrlPar	-	495	546	5	17	221	107	218	1,274	1,468	2,742	601	33	172	103	16	131	21	82	39	4	0	79
Saul IrlPar	-	419	419	0	17	232	57	130	1,178	1,232	2,410	614	47	170	77	35	75	11	13	133	53	37	66
Tyrella IrlPar	-	317	318	1	7	210	47	61	857	917	1,774	423	15	161	52	17	58	8	7	102	3	1	49

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