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".

List for top level	Laoighis	List for Ireland Dep

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]
Laoighis IrlC Total	23,105	24,945	538	86	66,738	67,537	134,275	23,746	9,636	8,321	41,703	4,825	1,998	6,823
Ballyadams IrlBarony	1,389	1,474	86	17	3,946	3,921	7,867	1,331	515	474	2,320	430	330	760
Cullenagh IrlBarony	2,587	2,777	65	16	7,593	7,731	15,324	2,859	986	1,104	4,949	555	163	718
Maryborough East IrlBarony	1,699	1,977	71	15	4,949	5,095	10,044	1,637	685	839	3,161	405	269	674
Maryborough West IrlBarony	2,967	3,167	66	3	8,144	8,309	16,453	2,365	1,573	1,002	4,940	679	56	735
Portnahinch IrlBarony	2,360	2,580	26	5	6,969	7,035	14,004	1,869	1,219	927	4,015	332	219	551
Slievemargy IrlBarony	2,523	2,646	43	5	7,319	7,407	14,726	2,420	763	727	3,910	571	311	882
Stradbally IrlBarony	1,443	1,547	41	8	4,232	4,365	8,597	1,510	414	525	2,449	303	163	466
Tinnahinch IrlBarony	2,571	2,830	28	4	7,229	7,291	14,520	2,719	1,404	855	4,978	544	62	606
Upper Ossory IrlBarony	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

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.