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]
Navan Lower IrlBarony Total	-	2,945	3,064	39	52	2,121	543	400	7,994	8,240	16,234	4,036	93	612	2,241	7	759	97	12	133	82	99	437
Donaghpatrick IrlPar	-	138	142	1	1	115	15	12	464	467	931	286	18	25	180	0	26	8	4	17	8	2	46
Balrathboyne IrlPar	-	200	211	0	5	180	16	15	621	650	1,271	311	26	49	180	0	29	8	1	16	2	4	57
Dunmoe IrlPar	-	17	17	0	2	14	1	2	62	50	112	28	0	0	23	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2
Ardsallagh IrlPar	-	62	63	0	0	48	3	12	136	153	289	79	2	8	55	0	4	1	0	3	6	8	8
Ardbraccan IrlPar	-	701	702	9	9	620	57	25	1,922	1,876	3,798	928	31	265	510	1	94	11	0	6	10	16	89
Churchtown IrlPar	-	77	77	0	3	76	1	0	225	223	448	113	1	31	75	0	5	0	0	1	0	2	9
Donaghmore IrlPar	-	381	404	11	9	236	90	78	1,060	1,072	2,132	531	5	55	293	0	132	9	6	28	3	8	47
Liscartan IrlPar	-	37	37	0	0	37	0	0	113	116	229	66	4	5	49	0	6	0	0	0	2	0	6
Martry IrlPar	-	176	176	0	0	165	6	5	576	552	1,128	271	10	56	171	0	20	4	0	6	4	8	25
Navan IrlPar	-	990	1,068	6	19	540	320	208	2,508	2,784	5,292	1,294	12	53	659	6	409	66	6	35	48	32	162
Rathkenny IrlPar	-	374	385	12	9	271	49	65	1,000	995	1,995	512	15	82	298	0	64	4	0	42	7	16	54
Rataine IrlPar	-	60	60	0	1	48	10	2	185	185	370	91	6	18	48	0	16	1	0	0	2	9	20

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