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.".

Show top level table	Kells Upper	Show Meath IrlC table

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 Upper IrlBarony Total	-	3,385	3,654	37	63	2,163	689	802	10,106	10,356	20,462	4,280	119	686	2,571	1	957	137	533	176	100	38	802
Burry IrlPar	-	172	176	4	1	150	9	17	533	494	1,027	283	7	31	211	0	17	4	0	4	9	0	43
Donaghpatrick IrlPar	-	138	142	1	1	115	15	12	464	467	931	286	18	25	180	0	26	8	4	17	8	2	46
Dulane IrlPar	-	252	266	2	9	229	14	23	748	755	1,503	395	14	69	266	0	17	6	0	8	15	2	67
Girley IrlPar	-	247	258	1	4	213	26	19	747	733	1,480	383	5	40	278	0	45	7	1	1	6	3	42
Kells IrlPar	-	1,103	1,269	23	31	209	456	604	3,266	3,573	6,839	1,653	17	59	228	1	601	84	525	96	42	25	252
Kilskeer IrlPar	-	795	828	2	11	661	85	82	2,284	2,253	4,537	1,207	17	272	758	0	122	9	0	15	14	1	186
Loughan Or Castlekeeran IrlPar	-	635	667	10	7	537	72	58	1,889	1,906	3,795	922	11	317	458	0	99	2	0	22	13	14	130
Balrathboyne IrlPar	-	200	211	0	5	180	16	15	621	650	1,271	311	26	49	180	0	29	8	1	16	2	4	57
Teltown IrlPar	-	208	224	1	2	192	21	11	670	638	1,308	373	20	44	230	0	39	11	2	24	3	1	50

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