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.".

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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]
City of Cork IrlCity Total	-	11,986	19,951	146	735	1,967	10,989	6,995	48,312	58,704	107,016	24,733	341	668	2,436	53	9,701	2,273	6,576	1,840	845	256	5,286
Ballinaboy IrlPar	2,705	444	456	3	4	363	38	55	1,445	1,443	2,888	682	148	104	333	0	35	13	10	15	24	23	86
Currykippane IrlPar	-	158	171	2	19	134	14	23	538	504	1,042	271	16	20	176	0	19	5	19	9	7	3	31
Carrigaline IrlPar	406	1,151	1,235	7	38	583	150	502	3,632	3,745	7,377	1,781	51	284	699	4	221	72	270	62	118	69	336
Dunbulloge IrlPar	-	689	715	6	22	537	48	130	2,331	2,303	4,634	1,021	84	402	387	0	71	6	7	25	39	64	102
Carrigrohane IrlPar	-	269	365	2	15	90	51	224	1,006	1,146	2,152	483	18	30	220	1	65	19	80	19	31	7	93
Holy Trinity IrlPar	-	1,028	1,621	14	67	0	1,357	264	4,070	5,497	9,567	2,133	0	0	0	0	1,402	375	157	61	138	48	1,154
Inishkenny IrlPar	-	192	193	0	1	89	14	90	656	634	1,290	324	23	74	133	2	32	0	29	5	26	22	50
Kilcully IrlPar	-	65	69	0	8	52	8	9	222	225	447	109	6	2	66	0	11	2	17	5	0	0	7
Killanully IrlPar	1,058	86	89	0	3	67	6	16	335	296	631	158	20	47	56	0	3	4	4	4	20	8	28
Kilnaglory IrlPar	-	161	167	0	1	125	15	27	569	560	1,129	286	33	68	144	0	17	3	2	11	8	2	36
Rathcooney IrlPar	-	454	517	7	33	249	153	115	1,454	1,534	2,988	734	35	46	309	0	135	37	116	39	17	4	95
St Annes Shandon IrlPar	-	2,678	4,577	47	137	240	1,935	2,402	10,643	13,098	23,741	5,314	23	36	282	32	2,334	558	1,631	251	167	41	1,126
St Finbars IrlPar	-	1,851	2,587	27	121	608	815	1,164	6,762	7,877	14,639	3,447	91	196	562	8	656	254	1,151	325	204	60	723
St Marys Shandon IrlPar	-	1,837	3,260	24	101	76	2,386	798	7,247	8,771	16,018	3,633	49	30	91	1	1,631	259	1,363	142	67	23	647
St Nicholas IrlPar	-	1,663	3,094	8	129	66	2,194	834	7,853	9,809	17,662	4,217	3	25	78	5	1,415	388	1,469	756	78	14	618
St Pauls IrlPar	-	412	1,095	6	24	1	970	124	2,130	2,898	5,028	1,076	4	0	0	0	728	139	138	38	29	7	281
St Peters IrlPar	-	650	1,724	7	57	0	1,006	718	3,411	4,532	7,943	1,803	0	0	0	0	1,189	200	215	181	18	6	325
St Michaels IrlPar	-	81	84	1	2	68	6	10	267	262	529	129	15	20	65	0	11	2	4	4	8	3	9
Whitechurch IrlPar	-	438	451	0	29	322	36	93	1,550	1,514	3,064	748	71	110	430	0	53	9	52	20	3	12	91
Athnowen IrlPar	3,786	278	292	1	8	205	32	55	974	979	1,953	520	53	86	238	0	69	18	27	12	17	2	119

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within City of Cork IrlCity:

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.