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	Salt South	Show Kildare 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]
Salt South IrlBarony Total	609	722	20	2	1,926	1,976	3,902	715	272	360	1,347	0	0	0
Whitechurch IrlPar	52	53	2	0	182	164	346	78	18	55	151	0	0	0
Rathmore IrlPar	346	405	13	0	1,115	1,081	2,196	528	106	212	846	66	38	104
Naas IrlPar	620	810	27	2	1,820	1,873	3,693	457	479	548	1,484	211	117	328
Kill IrlPar	153	179	3	0	502	494	996	176	58	102	336	0	0	0
Kildrought IrlPar	374	500	16	0	1,190	1,208	2,398	267	602	268	1,137	0	115	115
Oughterard IrlPar	89	105	6	0	284	266	550	113	25	60	198	0	0	0
Lyons IrlPar	79	102	3	1	275	261	536	113	21	65	199	0	0	0
Castledillon IrlPar	16	17	1	0	56	59	115	23	3	10	36	0	0	0
Donaghcumper IrlPar	112	143	3	1	337	377	714	112	70	49	231	0	0	0

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