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]
Deece Lower IrlBarony Total	-	655	680	6	7	518	69	93	1,992	1,939	3,931	999	106	109	506	0	113	16	14	73	62	67	160
Assey IrlPar	-	15	15	0	0	13	0	2	57	51	108	28	3	4	14	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	9
Balsoon IrlPar	-	53	55	0	0	48	2	5	167	144	311	79	6	6	56	0	2	0	0	7	2	11	9
Derrypatrick IrlPar	-	139	150	2	1	115	20	15	442	408	850	221	27	20	112	0	26	0	2	13	21	17	26
Galtrim IrlPar	-	119	125	2	2	92	9	24	334	382	716	174	19	24	85	0	18	3	0	15	10	13	36
Kilmessan IrlPar	-	144	145	0	0	102	25	18	410	402	812	213	20	34	71	0	44	5	4	23	12	16	33
Knockmark IrlPar	-	122	123	1	0	94	7	22	356	358	714	164	15	12	88	0	16	7	6	7	13	9	25
Scurlockstown IrlPar	-	50	54	1	2	42	6	6	181	147	328	96	12	7	62	0	7	1	2	5	0	0	14
Trubley IrlPar	-	13	13	0	2	12	0	1	45	47	92	24	4	2	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Agher IrlPar	-	59	60	0	2	42	14	4	184	176	360	103	4	13	47	0	20	6	0	2	11	12	22

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