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	Castlereagh	Show Down 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]
Castlereagh IrlBarony Total	10,245	10,997	529	4	27,136	29,393	56,529	7,084	10,907	4,685	22,676	2,197	1,568	3,765
Lambeg IrlPar	284	320	9	0	688	805	1,493	173	556	112	841	104	30	134
Drumbeg IrlPar	326	352	8	0	857	972	1,829	232	467	148	847	103	55	158
Blaris IrlPar	2,167	2,496	86	0	5,882	6,493	12,375	1,251	4,910	987	7,148	755	605	1,360
Bangor IrlPar	1,674	1,797	88	4	4,478	5,064	9,542	651	1,643	1,140	3,434	445	323	768
Newtown Ards IrlPar	1,628	1,773	88	0	4,193	4,618	8,811	722	2,837	932	4,491	491	309	800
Killyleagh IrlPar	1,127	1,205	14	0	2,954	3,192	6,146	1,117	2,324	604	4,045	329	190	519
Kilmore IrlPar	1,119	1,177	57	0	2,950	3,101	6,051	911	449	491	1,851	75	0	75
Killinchy IrlPar	1,329	1,410	10	0	3,473	3,861	7,334	1,434	2,459	454	4,347	473	293	766
Saintfield IrlPar	1,328	1,400	45	0	3,274	3,698	6,972	877	551	539	1,967	184	126	310
Killaney IrlPar	216	230	14	1	558	612	1,170	149	103	123	375	37	27	64
Drumbo IrlPar	1,420	1,451	69	1	3,689	3,927	7,616	1,015	1,462	570	3,047	297	184	481
Knockbreda IrlPar	1,364	1,670	136	0	3,945	4,040	7,985	585	1,606	695	2,886	254	207	461
Comber IrlPar	1,469	1,532	63	0	3,934	4,267	8,201	885	1,110	666	2,661	346	278	624
Holywood IrlPar	737	783	49	1	1,867	2,168	4,035	459	439	452	1,350	139	139	278
Dundonald IrlPar	267	281	4	0	749	747	1,496	259	139	120	518	49	27	76
Kilmood IrlPar	360	377	28	0	988	1,119	2,107	370	865	168	1,403	369	208	577
Tullynakill IrlPar	221	224	19	0	628	697	1,325	253	545	95	893	70	0	70

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