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]
Newcastle IrlBarony Total	-	3,063	3,867	32	172	1,566	1,094	1,207	10,310	11,284	21,594	5,162	119	270	1,990	132	1,266	356	447	311	271	99	972
St James IrlPar	-	1,188	2,418	12	72	170	1,017	1,231	5,921	7,276	13,197	2,917	18	23	193	34	1,118	295	609	509	118	28	446
Ballyfermot IrlPar	-	66	66	0	3	36	24	6	185	217	402	79	8	1	38	3	19	4	3	0	3	2	19
Cruagh IrlPar	-	181	212	2	8	103	78	31	601	615	1,216	307	10	28	131	7	90	18	6	0	17	3	53
Crumlin IrlPar	-	166	179	4	17	119	23	37	478	480	958	249	13	13	144	0	42	9	16	6	6	10	33
Esker IrlPar	-	172	188	0	8	145	14	29	549	526	1,075	274	18	26	170	4	20	6	3	8	19	8	48
Kilmactalway IrlPar	-	73	82	0	4	53	12	17	242	230	472	127	3	3	70	1	15	3	23	3	6	2	26
Lucan IrlPar	-	259	302	1	7	141	49	112	820	917	1,737	442	12	19	221	2	87	34	19	18	30	8	116
Newcastle IrlPar	-	174	189	2	2	138	16	35	580	518	1,098	314	7	41	186	1	27	9	14	14	15	11	52
Palmerston IrlPar	-	244	305	1	37	142	113	50	727	806	1,533	399	5	5	213	77	49	16	10	7	17	8	42
Rathfarnham IrlPar	-	695	796	5	32	299	251	246	2,141	2,432	4,573	1,125	6	14	392	11	312	133	112	56	89	23	294
Rathcoole IrlPar	-	280	293	2	6	218	34	41	868	856	1,724	447	13	60	222	0	55	9	7	70	11	2	32
Saggart IrlPar	-	252	265	6	9	190	45	30	896	775	1,671	410	17	90	194	0	57	7	32	9	4	7	42
Clondalkin IrlPar	-	512	539	6	24	351	123	65	1,514	1,479	2,993	830	49	20	497	3	173	27	23	14	24	8	64
Leixlip IrlPar	-	235	337	0	15	108	110	119	829	795	1,624	477	18	3	181	4	139	47	59	12	14	7	63

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