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 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]
Down IrlC Total	59,747	63,621	1,854	24	156,599	168,811	325,410	46,369	95,356	25,543	167,268	13,081	6,465	19,546
Ardes IrlBarony	7,752	8,228	297	8	19,367	21,775	41,142	4,378	9,641	3,731	17,750	1,605	966	2,571
Castlereagh IrlBarony	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
Dufferin IrlBarony	1,651	1,759	22	0	4,340	4,785	9,125	1,694	3,336	838	5,868	595	308	903
Iveagh Lower IrlBarony	10,838	11,395	267	1	29,390	30,940	60,330	7,931	19,978	3,606	31,515	3,240	1,007	4,247
Iveagh Upper IrlBarony	14,235	14,782	402	4	36,022	39,133	75,155	13,522	25,330	5,734	44,586	2,232	1,257	3,489
Kinelarty IrlBarony	3,552	3,711	68	0	9,262	10,065	19,327	3,581	5,688	1,315	10,584	541	133	674
Lecale IrlBarony	5,894	6,556	124	5	15,968	16,374	32,342	4,447	9,213	2,973	16,633	1,591	553	2,144
Mourne IrlBarony	2,565	2,688	94	2	6,784	7,020	13,804	2,055	5,203	1,075	8,333	427	313	740
Newry Lordship Of IrlBarony	3,015	3,505	51	0	8,330	9,326	17,656	1,677	6,060	1,586	9,323	653	360	1,013

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.

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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.