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	Upper Ossory	Show Laoighis 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]
Upper Ossory IrlBarony Total	5,566	5,947	112	13	16,357	16,383	32,740	7,036	2,077	1,868	10,981	1,006	425	1,431
Attanagh IrlPar	252	257	3	0	730	747	1,477	293	46	86	425	80	33	113
Erke IrlPar	730	749	12	3	2,051	2,046	4,097	807	89	195	1,091	95	30	125
Aharney IrlPar	253	270	6	1	771	777	1,548	286	57	126	469	64	38	102
Durrow IrlPar	526	559	30	0	1,341	1,449	2,790	486	240	210	936	77	55	132
Abbeyleix IrlPar	899	951	14	12	2,736	2,749	5,485	1,019	336	363	1,718	89	7	96
Aghaboe IrlPar	918	962	22	1	2,620	2,633	5,253	1,158	199	266	1,623	186	45	231
Kyle IrlPar	291	308	12	1	818	808	1,626	293	37	85	415	69	46	115
Skirk IrlPar	117	124	1	0	379	361	740	140	11	43	194	33	12	45
Rathsaran IrlPar	135	139	2	0	391	381	772	181	65	37	283	55	25	80
Rathdowney IrlPar	837	1,001	9	1	2,744	2,730	5,474	1,237	794	340	2,371	132	59	191
Donaghmore IrlPar	177	181	2	1	515	493	1,008	258	141	57	456	0	0	0
Killermogh IrlPar	104	106	0	0	286	282	568	143	16	21	180	0	0	0
Kildellig IrlPar	80	81	1	0	215	217	432	114	10	29	153	78	0	78
Coolkerry IrlPar	59	62	0	0	188	165	353	97	12	24	133	0	0	0
Bordwell IrlPar	124	128	2	0	336	369	705	163	41	24	228	0	0	0
Rosconnell IrlPar	60	62	1	0	170	169	339	80	22	20	122	0	0	0
Aghmacart IrlPar	561	578	4	0	1,526	1,560	3,086	687	204	145	1,036	81	47	128
Offerlane IrlPar	1,555	1,646	41	9	4,616	4,687	9,303	1,666	359	576	2,601	317	184	501

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