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	Rathvilly	Show Carlow 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]
Rathvilly IrlBarony Total	2,818	3,195	73	1	8,493	8,866	17,359	2,445	1,085	1,250	4,780	927	843	1,770
Ballinacarrig IrlPar	110	118	7	1	317	327	644	179	31	42	252	7	3	10
Ballon IrlPar	236	249	2	0	693	705	1,398	198	84	112	394	64	50	114
Fennagh IrlPar	485	539	14	0	1,447	1,468	2,915	463	112	189	764	104	122	226
Rathvilly IrlPar	588	639	4	0	1,762	1,905	3,667	542	113	238	893	450	454	904
Rathmore IrlPar	232	254	0	0	732	745	1,477	243	50	137	430	76	43	119
Tankardstown IrlPar	161	171	0	0	573	528	1,101	192	30	99	321	10	0	10
Tullowphelim IrlPar	521	653	44	0	1,459	1,622	3,081	328	438	236	1,002	101	117	218
Hacketstown IrlPar	679	748	28	0	2,092	2,059	4,151	554	337	260	1,151	130	116	246
Ardristan IrlPar	286	334	3	0	806	842	1,648	248	147	89	484	55	50	105
Clonmore IrlPar	270	292	2	0	781	841	1,622	239	42	104	385	70	42	112
Haroldstown IrlPar	267	285	4	1	853	839	1,692	244	96	134	474	78	60	138
Benekery IrlPar	31	34	0	0	117	107	224	50	4	32	86	45	22	67
Rahill IrlPar	18	22	0	0	60	51	111	23	1	4	28	0	0	0
Aghowle IrlPar	516	568	15	0	1,555	1,633	3,188	527	146	222	895	248	141	389
Crecrin IrlPar	84	96	0	0	272	272	544	77	18	44	139	0	0	0
Kiltegan IrlPar	553	598	15	1	1,713	1,696	3,409	534	155	258	947	131	107	238
Baltinglass IrlPar	611	766	36	0	1,872	1,931	3,803	463	397	350	1,210	118	54	172

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