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]
Rathvilly IrlBarony Total	-	2,796	3,003	25	45	1,450	478	1,075	8,654	8,849	17,503	4,049	230	1,216	1,405	2	648	82	21	286	159	197	578
Ballinacarrig IrlPar	-	103	115	3	6	85	11	19	291	324	615	157	9	32	83	0	14	6	4	3	6	4	28
Ballon IrlPar	-	248	251	2	5	173	46	32	720	719	1,439	360	27	54	187	8	64	4	3	13	0	0	47
Fennagh IrlPar	-	714	769	7	12	550	92	127	2,100	2,224	4,324	1,064	60	309	452	0	114	28	29	48	24	6	166
Aghowle IrlPar	-	477	496	3	7	322	44	130	1,482	1,495	2,977	702	31	244	195	0	66	11	78	73	4	10	55
Ardristan IrlPar	-	93	94	1	0	81	0	13	282	261	543	137	2	64	61	1	1	0	0	5	3	1	7
Clonmore IrlPar	-	348	366	0	4	291	32	43	1,147	1,097	2,244	503	70	157	158	0	46	8	2	26	36	39	82
Hacketstown IrlPar	-	683	747	11	26	472	106	169	2,177	2,257	4,434	945	55	392	218	0	141	16	21	69	33	49	110
Haroldstown IrlPar	-	143	152	0	1	60	17	75	428	409	837	214	14	70	95	0	22	1	0	12	0	20	42
Kiltegan IrlPar	-	610	636	6	6	489	67	80	1,879	1,944	3,823	923	88	338	255	2	96	20	10	25	89	67	150
Rathmore IrlPar	-	244	253	1	1	114	16	123	754	765	1,519	368	25	132	164	0	27	2	1	8	9	23	74
Rathvilly IrlPar	-	572	607	6	8	236	71	300	1,697	1,777	3,474	820	47	281	329	0	104	12	0	42	5	57	123
Tullowphelim IrlPar	-	498	564	3	2	89	197	278	1,558	1,659	3,217	734	8	126	195	0	257	39	1	70	38	23	104
Crecrin IrlPar	-	76	82	0	0	56	8	18	267	243	510	119	4	46	40	0	10	0	8	11	0	1	4
Baltinglass IrlPar	-	639	732	2	19	408	210	114	2,026	2,084	4,110	975	63	175	330	1	283	40	15	42	26	22	151

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