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	Munster	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]
Munster IProv Total	5,210,472	330,444	376,051	3,796	9,553	244,770	62,285	68,996	1,093,411	1,133,741	2,227,152	542,200	33,443	120,268	212,347	1,048	77,280	16,825	34,507	28,996	17,486	12,276	81,349
Clare IrlC	730,227	40,358	43,374	628	644	32,580	4,537	6,257	128,446	129,876	258,322	63,077	1,593	24,394	22,208	7	6,317	1,317	2,302	2,042	2,897	1,428	7,977
County of the City of Cork IrlC	-	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
Cork IrlC	1,701,585	106,893	118,356	982	3,874	81,623	16,531	20,202	348,402	355,314	703,716	171,873	14,862	35,613	75,251	534	21,614	4,647	8,708	6,130	4,514	4,616	24,652
Kerry IrlC	1,068,480	41,294	45,024	482	678	34,043	4,621	6,360	131,696	131,430	263,126	63,545	2,381	15,719	26,116	3	6,349	1,373	914	9,146	1,544	1,663	7,183
County of the City of Limerick IrlC	-	7,820	11,953	138	427	2,798	4,057	5,098	30,414	36,140	66,554	15,663	384	1,289	2,561	23	5,106	1,323	3,618	742	617	138	3,131
Limerick IrlC	479,581	36,981	40,894	482	604	31,236	5,186	4,472	123,211	125,590	248,801	61,658	3,688	12,843	30,765	355	7,041	1,439	559	2,795	2,173	1,068	10,436
Tipperary IrlC	834,909	60,264	66,308	727	1,678	45,051	10,506	10,751	197,713	204,850	402,563	98,243	7,286	23,181	36,440	29	13,673	2,906	6,826	3,766	4,136	2,369	14,863
County of the City of Waterford IrlC	-	3,614	5,827	31	245	270	2,323	3,234	12,570	16,251	28,821	6,420	96	63	306	32	2,538	715	1,747	692	231	102	1,709
Waterford IrlC	395,690	21,234	24,364	180	668	15,202	3,535	5,627	72,647	75,586	148,233	36,988	2,812	6,498	16,264	12	4,941	832	3,257	1,843	529	636	6,112

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.