Vision of Ireland | 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]
Dublin IrlC Total	188,160	23,819	31,570	369	1,136	10,127	8,769	12,674	82,299	93,713	176,012	43,120	990	1,936	12,967	309	10,595	5,612	4,855	2,933	2,923	743	10,237
City of Dublin IrlCity	3,240	16,042	40,459	152	889	212	19,824	20,423	91,557	112,598	204,155	50,234	14	26	508	155	23,576	8,620	10,820	3,612	2,903	556	11,574
Balrothery IrlBarony	-	3,477	3,708	57	143	1,969	775	964	10,419	9,940	20,359	5,427	243	621	2,515	5	983	103	554	277	126	82	595
Castleknock IrlBarony	-	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
Coolock IrlBarony	-	5,320	7,015	63	264	1,827	1,459	3,729	17,375	22,386	39,761	9,445	131	183	2,304	50	1,652	2,192	1,019	860	1,054	234	3,405
Donore IrlBarony	-	750	2,243	2	54	16	1,295	932	5,045	6,108	11,153	2,637	8	11	11	56	1,662	152	540	176	21	4	193
Nethercross IrlBarony	-	1,434	1,530	14	51	1,036	236	258	4,468	4,129	8,597	2,448	144	142	1,465	0	341	74	40	157	85	34	355
Newcastle IrlBarony	-	3,063	3,867	32	172	1,566	1,094	1,207	10,310	11,284	21,594	5,162	119	270	1,990	132	1,266	356	447	311	271	99	972
Rathdown IrlBarony	-	4,078	4,971	117	264	1,082	1,273	2,616	13,402	15,886	29,288	6,984	75	144	1,476	33	1,575	1,299	1,281	242	859	128	2,176
St Sepulchre IrlBarony	-	1,080	2,925	10	33	41	1,525	1,359	6,002	7,629	13,631	3,321	4	2	45	11	1,661	482	524	478	114	34	620
Uppercross IrlBarony	-	3,492	4,011	62	117	1,765	874	1,372	10,939	12,207	23,146	5,584	187	466	1,982	21	1,104	798	394	409	223	87	1,519

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Dublin IrlC:

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.