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]
Islands IrlBarony Total	3,962	4,821	159	4	11,858	12,283	24,141	3,645	1,837	1,994	7,476	1,354	718	2,072
Drumcliff IrlPar	1,609	2,291	115	4	4,791	5,443	10,234	790	1,336	1,024	3,150	734	400	1,134
Inch IrlPar	258	281	2	0	781	741	1,522	398	38	102	538	39	24	63
Kilmaley IrlPar	616	672	21	0	1,887	1,812	3,699	649	114	273	1,036	160	106	266
Killone IrlPar	344	358	6	0	1,061	1,048	2,109	401	87	116	604	61	28	89
Clareabbey IrlPar	496	575	14	0	1,505	1,514	3,019	524	168	252	944	155	94	249
Clondagad IrlPar	639	644	1	0	1,833	1,725	3,558	883	94	227	1,204	205	66	271

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