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	Shillelogher	Show Kilkenny 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]
Shillelogher IrlBarony Total	-	1,730	1,800	13	45	1,342	275	183	5,525	5,409	10,934	2,853	235	488	1,609	12	299	60	29	85	36	21	386
St Canice IrlPar	-	1,781	2,139	67	175	687	810	642	4,746	5,448	10,194	2,360	75	87	715	136	797	88	211	161	90	42	275
St Johns IrlPar	-	879	1,215	4	28	552	409	254	2,686	3,118	5,804	1,286	7	161	428	9	484	53	33	82	29	27	233
St Patricks IrlPar	-	417	480	7	32	240	127	113	1,340	1,403	2,743	699	112	35	229	2	151	77	25	29	39	2	155
Burnchurch IrlPar	-	242	248	1	1	201	27	20	711	739	1,450	382	29	85	197	0	34	15	0	12	10	0	54
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
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
Castleinch IrlPar	-	201	205	0	0	172	23	10	636	645	1,281	348	40	73	183	0	26	14	1	5	6	0	82
Danesfort IrlPar	-	209	236	1	5	169	47	20	699	642	1,341	380	10	54	243	10	28	5	4	18	8	0	5
Earlstown IrlPar	-	66	67	0	1	56	5	6	385	294	679	279	23	18	219	0	10	2	0	3	4	8	27
Ennisnag IrlPar	-	139	145	1	2	104	21	20	418	446	864	195	17	44	88	2	14	6	11	12	1	0	37
Outrath IrlPar	-	146	149	0	3	123	14	12	505	452	957	262	32	65	130	0	18	3	7	3	4	0	40
Tullamaine IrlPar	-	56	58	0	4	51	1	6	224	192	416	110	4	34	68	0	1	0	0	3	0	4	10

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