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]
Castleknock IrlBarony Total	-	1,125	1,300	12	38	825	238	237	4,339	4,144	8,483	2,112	79	97	1,179	1	351	156	56	23	170	41	402
St James IrlPar	-	1,188	2,418	12	72	170	1,017	1,231	5,921	7,276	13,197	2,917	18	23	193	34	1,118	295	609	509	118	28	446
Castleknock IrlPar	-	637	689	10	27	447	110	132	2,082	2,169	4,251	1,090	41	63	598	1	149	85	26	17	110	22	230
Chapelizod IrlPar	-	98	195	0	0	45	86	64	818	761	1,579	255	0	4	59	0	128	31	27	0	6	3	56
Cloghran IrlPar	-	14	14	0	0	14	0	0	38	34	72	21	0	2	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clonsilla IrlPar	-	134	143	0	6	99	24	20	492	451	943	250	17	16	123	0	35	22	2	0	35	6	61
Kilsallaghan IrlPar	-	92	93	1	0	81	9	3	305	276	581	161	2	5	119	0	28	4	0	0	3	0	16
Mulhuddart IrlPar	-	70	70	0	4	62	2	6	264	207	471	148	9	2	114	0	2	8	1	0	12	1	18
Ward IrlPar	-	24	35	0	1	25	4	6	159	92	251	90	7	1	71	0	2	5	0	3	1	7	9
Finglas IrlPar	-	336	363	2	7	245	48	70	1,132	978	2,110	613	31	31	334	0	65	34	1	84	33	17	91

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