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	Borough of Drogheda	Show Louth 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]
Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown Total	-	3,206	3,784	34	131	418	1,916	1,450	8,178	9,187	17,365	4,222	26	84	431	946	1,431	336	653	235	80	43	723
Ballymakenny IrlPar	-	100	100	1	3	68	23	9	282	281	563	151	2	49	61	25	8	3	0	3	0	1	20
St Marys IrlPar	-	853	1,028	7	38	127	524	377	2,141	2,295	4,436	1,070	4	29	109	296	327	28	207	61	9	3	53
St Peters IrlPar	-	2,289	2,692	27	91	255	1,370	1,067	5,851	6,715	12,566	3,055	21	32	283	625	1,097	306	446	174	71	39	657
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
Donore IrlPar	-	223	224	2	8	179	27	18	581	610	1,191	303	19	30	166	0	42	6	4	4	32	22	66

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown:

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.