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.".

List for top level	Wexford	List for Ireland Dep

click on 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]
Wexford IrlC Total	401,413	29,923	32,856	529	790	21,465	6,155	5,236	87,995	94,718	182,713	45,414	3,878	10,683	15,321	169	7,994	1,306	2,176	3,194	693	638	7,347
Ballaghkeen IrlBarony	-	4,806	5,208	103	114	3,849	697	662	13,486	14,381	27,867	6,741	560	1,925	2,747	1	858	163	188	192	107	120	929
Bantry IrlBarony	-	4,773	5,555	50	118	3,433	1,080	1,042	14,337	15,608	29,945	7,592	537	2,094	2,249	30	1,396	210	474	462	140	203	1,337
Bargy IrlBarony	-	1,915	1,977	51	40	1,414	377	186	5,965	6,148	12,113	3,071	293	687	1,043	3	494	68	96	349	38	82	523
Forth IrlBarony	-	3,547	4,100	89	132	1,465	1,206	1,429	10,397	11,995	22,392	5,483	381	482	1,271	10	1,585	304	736	594	120	97	1,139
Gorey IrlBarony	-	3,447	3,674	37	83	2,601	669	404	10,419	10,769	21,188	5,192	630	1,107	2,028	0	870	92	61	369	35	13	927
Scarawalsh IrlBarony	-	5,101	5,597	74	133	3,766	1,203	628	15,240	15,989	31,229	7,865	742	2,129	2,506	22	1,448	220	250	427	121	74	1,185
Shelburne IrlBarony	-	2,861	3,040	64	71	2,081	436	523	8,327	9,360	17,687	4,262	325	1,162	1,221	59	608	121	248	482	36	12	609
Shelmalier IrlBarony	-	3,473	3,705	61	99	2,856	487	362	9,824	10,468	20,292	5,208	410	1,097	2,256	44	735	128	123	319	96	37	698

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.

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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.