Vision of Britain | 1821 Census: Abstract of answers

1821 Census of Ireland, Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act of the United Parliament, passed in the 55th Year of the Reign of His Late Majesty George the Third, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, and for ascertaining the Increase or "Diminution thereof.": Preliminary Observations. Enumeration Abstract. Appendix., Table [1] : " Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Act of Ireland:- 1821".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Houses				Persons			Occupations				Schools
	Inhabited. [1]	Families. [2]	Uninhabited. [3]	Building. [4]	Males. [5]	Females. [6]	Total of Persons. [7]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Agriculture. [8]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft. [9]	No. of all other Persons occupied and not comprised in the two preceding Classes. [10]	Total Number of Persons occupied. [11]	Pupils
	Inhabited. [1]	Families. [2]	Uninhabited. [3]	Building. [4]	Males. [5]	Females. [6]	Total of Persons. [7]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Agriculture. [8]			Total Number of Persons occupied. [11]	Males. [12]	Females. [13]	Total. [14]
Meath IrlC Total	27,942	30,125	574	37	79,778	79,405	159,183	28,948	20,301	12,769	62,018	5,038	2,591	7,629
Borough of Drogheda IrlCorpTown	3,164	4,168	195	5	8,702	9,416	18,118	845	4,796	1,963	7,604	716	431	1,147
Deece Lower IrlBarony	639	653	15	0	1,855	1,787	3,642	624	299	385	1,308	23	15	38
Deece Upper IrlBarony	831	892	21	0	2,459	2,482	4,941	854	283	463	1,600	174	156	330
Fore IrlBarony	2,229	2,364	20	0	6,393	6,278	12,671	2,689	3,357	1,215	7,261	427	244	671
Duleek Lower IrlBarony	1,657	1,739	64	0	4,595	4,637	9,232	1,603	752	856	3,211	297	138	435
Duleek Upper IrlBarony	1,422	1,493	20	3	4,091	3,983	8,074	1,200	709	893	2,802	169	106	275
Dunboyne IrlBarony	370	445	13	0	1,192	1,159	2,351	600	222	203	1,025	78	36	114
Kells Lower IrlBarony	2,166	2,273	25	0	6,081	6,211	12,292	1,962	711	967	3,640	475	231	706
Kells Upper IrlBarony	3,228	3,550	0	0	9,072	9,228	18,300	2,634	1,303	1,317	5,254	575	256	831
Lune IrlBarony	1,890	2,005	38	6	5,101	5,104	10,205	2,048	1,811	502	4,361	400	231	631
Morgallion IrlBarony	1,908	2,061	25	11	5,397	5,493	10,890	1,998	1,111	745	3,854	425	205	630
Moyfenrath Lower IrlBarony	1,751	1,975	29	0	5,365	5,217	10,582	2,212	1,427	540	4,179	457	248	705
Moyfenrath Upper IrlBarony	1,363	1,418	24	6	4,044	3,758	7,802	1,945	1,349	457	3,751	118	87	205
Navan Lower IrlBarony	2,581	2,912	85	3	7,047	7,128	14,175	1,831	1,481	1,002	4,314	482	124	606
Navan Upper IrlBarony	785	890	25	1	2,205	2,247	4,452	905	700	411	2,016	154	63	217
Ratoath IrlBarony	906	971	9	0	2,825	2,566	5,391	1,366	211	377	1,954	173	126	299
Skreen IrlBarony	1,325	1,376	57	3	3,986	3,993	7,979	1,652	1,403	1,276	4,331	154	103	257
Slane Lower IrlBarony	1,584	1,692	46	2	4,288	4,383	8,671	1,730	1,316	635	3,681	258	132	390
Slane Upper IrlBarony	1,307	1,416	58	2	3,782	3,751	7,533	1,095	1,856	525	3,476	199	90	289

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1821
Percentage of persons entitled to voluntary schooling attending	1821
Percent in Agriculture	1821

Comments:

1	Our transcription of this table for Baronies and Parishes is currently limited to the Province of Ulster.
2	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.