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".

Show top level table	Slane Lower	Show Meath IrlC table

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]
Slane Lower IrlBarony Total	1,584	1,692	46	2	4,288	4,383	8,671	1,730	1,316	635	3,681	258	132	390
Enniskeen IrlPar	1,421	1,484	65	2	3,818	3,829	7,647	1,432	1,619	595	3,646	141	62	203
Nobber IrlPar	990	1,062	14	3	2,835	2,887	5,722	972	513	376	1,861	177	80	257
Killary IrlPar	384	401	15	1	1,001	1,061	2,062	428	293	154	875	32	18	50
Mitchelstown IrlPar	35	35	2	0	103	112	215	40	41	10	91	10	4	14
Loughbrackan IrlPar	53	58	6	0	156	153	309	66	39	37	142	0	0	0
Siddan IrlPar	200	219	2	1	571	599	1,170	241	183	112	536	45	38	83
Inishmot IrlPar	47	51	1	0	176	146	322	74	27	49	150	0	0	0
Drumcondra IrlPar	585	632	14	0	1,546	1,532	3,078	579	517	196	1,292	73	44	117
Ardagh IrlPar	194	207	6	0	520	554	1,074	211	141	52	404	98	28	126

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Slane Lower IrlBarony:

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.