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	Slane 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]
Slane Upper IrlBarony Total	-	1,267	1,319	4	47	918	236	165	3,610	3,655	7,265	1,764	46	379	859	0	325	31	36	63	25	18	247
Collon IrlPar	-	486	516	7	17	327	91	98	1,331	1,415	2,746	644	15	130	259	19	97	34	13	38	39	35	120
Tullyallen IrlPar	-	660	683	7	14	358	206	119	1,636	1,763	3,399	852	19	113	273	5	295	13	28	69	37	22	94
Rathkenny IrlPar	-	374	385	12	9	271	49	65	1,000	995	1,995	512	15	82	298	0	64	4	0	42	7	16	54
Dowth IrlPar	-	62	62	0	1	47	6	9	178	184	362	87	4	11	57	0	7	0	5	0	3	4	20
Gernonstown IrlPar	-	159	162	1	6	128	26	8	457	468	925	230	2	35	141	0	32	3	5	8	4	0	37
Grangegeeth IrlPar	-	239	245	2	7	191	26	28	636	668	1,304	329	13	140	127	0	45	2	0	2	0	0	0
Monknewtown IrlPar	-	115	115	0	4	84	19	12	364	336	700	176	12	30	100	0	25	2	0	4	3	8	27
Slane IrlPar	-	427	468	1	21	279	112	77	1,241	1,275	2,516	598	5	80	272	0	146	19	22	41	13	5	127
Stackallan IrlPar	-	155	157	0	8	108	34	15	425	412	837	210	2	31	109	0	49	5	4	8	2	1	30

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