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]
Kells IrlBarony Total	-	2,478	2,630	18	51	1,822	476	332	7,559	7,902	15,461	3,783	221	948	1,483	10	582	139	104	139	157	140	565
Ballytobin IrlPar	-	106	112	0	4	93	4	15	348	356	704	176	9	33	105	0	7	5	5	7	5	1	31
Callan IrlPar	-	1,086	1,175	15	50	580	349	246	2,891	3,220	6,111	1,338	26	199	516	0	425	60	14	86	12	13	164
Coolaghmore IrlPar	-	216	216	0	0	197	16	3	723	694	1,417	357	7	196	68	0	23	1	0	11	51	42	48
Dunnamaggan IrlPar	-	185	187	7	5	143	22	22	589	587	1,176	314	31	32	187	0	38	13	0	11	2	0	35
Killamery IrlPar	-	291	292	0	0	247	33	12	885	952	1,837	460	5	157	144	0	48	8	5	11	82	67	78
Kells IrlPar	-	267	291	1	5	206	50	35	804	854	1,658	407	25	55	218	6	62	20	7	11	3	0	60
Kilmaganny IrlPar	-	559	602	4	9	425	109	68	1,832	1,838	3,670	907	118	266	287	3	109	28	76	16	4	16	139
Kilree IrlPar	-	102	106	1	1	96	6	4	314	338	652	166	8	43	93	0	6	11	0	3	2	1	33
Mallardstown IrlPar	-	89	89	1	0	77	9	3	277	270	547	155	6	41	82	1	12	4	3	4	2	0	23

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