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]
Dundalk Upper IrlBarony Total	-	4,313	4,728	58	196	2,279	1,684	765	12,054	12,976	25,030	5,997	129	1,448	1,449	9	1,603	343	583	227	206	128	972
Louth IrlPar	-	1,723	1,879	17	67	1,183	210	486	4,782	4,939	9,721	2,343	148	716	635	36	280	54	270	111	93	163	382
Ballymascanlan IrlPar	-	1,295	1,321	6	52	1,018	163	140	3,657	3,818	7,475	1,744	78	716	454	0	230	45	71	80	70	83	196
Ballybarrack IrlPar	-	72	84	1	0	58	6	20	228	216	444	117	3	31	49	0	9	1	2	6	16	2	14
Barronstown IrlPar	-	178	182	4	4	149	10	23	500	512	1,012	258	8	129	87	0	14	8	0	5	7	1	6
Castletown IrlPar	-	157	157	0	0	105	25	27	397	441	838	200	6	22	117	0	36	5	4	6	4	0	22
Creggan IrlPar	-	2,611	2,636	22	86	2,166	255	215	6,979	7,282	14,261	3,433	280	1,110	1,488	0	395	36	1	109	14	167	378
Dunbin IrlPar	-	177	177	4	0	148	15	14	471	498	969	239	7	75	121	0	32	3	0	0	1	0	15
Dundalk IrlPar	-	2,173	2,495	37	112	579	1,472	444	6,244	7,034	13,278	3,047	38	168	517	7	1,274	276	506	139	122	70	631
Inishkeen IrlPar	-	656	675	5	30	546	57	72	1,875	1,823	3,698	924	7	510	67	0	75	5	6	205	49	75	151
Faughart IrlPar	-	309	321	1	23	249	47	25	782	858	1,640	382	5	222	63	0	62	6	2	12	10	18	46
Haggardstown IrlPar	-	182	198	1	12	129	23	46	476	535	1,011	253	4	40	119	0	29	12	36	8	5	11	32
Haynestown IrlPar	-	74	88	1	3	58	7	23	234	208	442	120	9	23	42	0	18	6	4	3	15	7	21
Kane IrlPar	-	62	62	1	4	42	6	14	182	191	373	87	2	38	23	0	9	1	12	2	0	0	9
Philipstown IrlPar	-	74	78	0	1	63	5	10	221	238	459	104	8	37	37	0	6	4	0	2	10	2	13
Roche IrlPar	-	259	260	0	12	217	21	22	752	674	1,426	408	13	252	91	0	36	6	0	7	3	2	61

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