Parish, Barony, County and Province-level socio-economic statistics for Ireland in 1821.

Table ID:

PAR_1821_I     (1252186)

Contents:

Parish, Barony, County and Province-level socio-economic statistics for Ireland in 1821.

Approx. number of rows:

3,582

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1821.

Sources:

1. These data are a very complete transcription of the first and main table within each of the county sections of the Enumeration Abstract of the 1821 Census of Ireland. The only other statistics published from this census are a second table in the Abstract presenting numbers in each age group in each barony.
2. The initial transcription was limited to the nine counties of Ulster, plus national, province and county totals for the rest of Ireland.. It was computerised by Humphrey Southall in November and December 2022, with totals for the rest of Ireland added in August 2023. The remainder of Ireland transcribed by Harold Price in September 2023 and added to the table.

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Notes:

1. The overall set of tables in the Abstract includes summaries for Ireland as a whole and for each of the four provinces, as well as the main county-by-county listings, which are internally ordered by barony. Within each barony, the data rows each begin with a geographical name followed by a label, and only some of these labels are 'Parish'. The next most common labels are 'Town' and 'Village', and for these the place names are always indented, indicating they were parts of the previously named parish. In general their population data are NOT included in the row for the parish. However, for a few rows the data is a combined total, comments added in square brackets in the notes column indicate where this happens. To make the data usable, the names in these rows are held in the 'sub_area' column, they have been given the row_type 'Parish Part', and the name of the most recently mentioned parish copied into the 'parish' column. The only rows not labelled as 'Parish' which have been kept as rows of type 'Parish' are those labelled 'Grange' and 'Territory'.

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Checking:

1. When checking and correcting the data, individual cells which were correctly transcribed but led to matching errors in both row and column checksums were altered so that the checksums were correct; i.e. these were assumed to be printing errors. However, in a few cases what were presumably errors of arithmetic by the census clerks create inconsistencies implying errors not just in barony but in county and province totals. These were left unaltered.
2. Three single-row checksums have been computed, covering all columns except the three types of house and the count of families, and all columns were check-summed by barony and county. Two inconsistencies currently exist.
3. To ensure that text from footnotes, computerised separately, was inserted into the correct row of data, all such strings were checked for whether they contained within them the area name (i.e. the value in parish or parish_part). This also served as an additional check on the accuracy of placename transcriptions. The OCR'd text of the footnotes was carefully manually corrected from the scans, but the tezt was often hard to read. Further consistency checks are clearly possible, precisely because much of the information in the footnotes can also be inferred from the table, but this has not been attempted.
4. At the time of writing, all counties and baronies have been matched to the AUO. Following the addition of some variant names to the AUO, fourteen parishes remain unmatched and need further research.

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
row_type	Text string (max.len.=20).	Type of row: Nation (1) Province (4) County (40) Barony (334) Parish (2854) Parish Part (649)
province	Text string (max.len.=20).	Name of the province containing the county (will contain 'IRELAND' for the national total).
county	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of the county. Empty only for province and national totals.
barony	Text string (max.len.=64).	Name of the barony. This will be empty for counties.
parish	Text string (max.len.=104).	Name of the parish. This will be empty for provinces, counties and baronies. For parishes, it will be identical to area_name. See note above for how this has been copied over for parts of parishes.
area_name	Text string (max.len.=104).	Any non-indented name in the main column of names.
sub_area	Text string (max.len.=104).	Any indented name in the main column of area names. NB no row should have a value in both area_name and sub_area.
area_label	Text string (max.len.=44).	Label appearing after the area name, for rows with type 'Parish' or 'Parish Part'. The following values appear (with frequencies): City (3) Commons (21) Commons and Hills (1) Corporation (3) District (1) Extra Parochial (1) Extra-Parochial (1) Grange (4) Hamlet (5) Handpark (1) Island (2) Islands (1) Liberties and Parish (1) Liberties and Town (1) Liberty (1) Manor (3) New Town (1) Old Town (1) Parish (2580) Parishes (2) Suburb (2) Territory (1) Town (354) Town and Commons (1) Town and Parish (1) Village (239)
part_of	Text string (max.len.=12).	Contains 'P' if part of the parish was separately listed under a different barony, and otherwise empty. The notes column usually provides more details.
hous_inh	Integer number.	Houses: Inhabited.
fam_total	Integer number.	Houses: Families.
hous_uninh	Integer number.	Houses: Uninhabited.
hous_bldg	Integer number.	Houses: Building.
tot_male	Integer number.	Persons: Males.
tot_fem	Integer number.	Persons: Females.
tot_pop	Integer number.	Persons: Total of Persons.
occ_agric	Integer number.	Occupations: No. of Persons chiefly employed in Agriculture.
occ_trade	Integer number.	Occupations: No. of Persons chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft.
occ_other	Integer number.	Occupations: No, of all other Persons occupied and not comprised in the two preceding Classes.
occ_tot	Integer number.	Occupations: Total Number of Persons occupied.
sch_male	Integer number.	Schools: Pupils: Males.
sch_fem	Integer number.	Schools: Pupils: Females.
sch_tot	Integer number.	Schools: Pupils: Total.
notes	Text string (max.len.=1204).	Footnotes appearing in the original tables. County totals have comments giving more detailed information on workers in manudfacturing, notably giving numbers in branches of textiles. There were no comments on the rows for barony totals. Footnotes have been included for all counties in Ulster only. They mostly provide total populations for whole parishes, and indicate where the remainder of a parish or town is listed. For parishes in the other Provinces the footnotes have mostly not been added, except where they relate to rows including combined totals. Where a comment is given within sqaure brackets it indicates additional information added by the transcriber about the data.
province_unit	Integer number.	ID number for the province containing the county, as defined in the AUO.
county_unit	Integer number.	ID number for the county, as defined in the AUO.
barony_unit	Integer number.	ID number for the barony, as defined in the AUO.
parish_unit	Integer number.	ID number for the parish, as defined in the AUO.
town_unit	Integer number.	[No description available]
rec_num	Integer number.	Sequence number to keep rows in their original order, added on loading the data into GBHDB.