Vision of Ireland | 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	Connaught	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]
Connaught IProv Total	197,408	211,637	5,393	234	553,948	556,281	1,110,229	236,605	224,165	61,590	522,360	31,381	15,105	46,486
Galway IrlC	54,180	57,142	1,283	65	156,157	153,442	309,599	63,799	42,476	19,175	125,450	7,690	3,161	10,851
County of the Town of Galway IrlC	3,957	6,238	142	31	13,346	14,429	27,775	2,806	2,647	3,206	8,659	1,131	828	1,959
Leitrim IrlC	21,762	23,101	435	5	61,361	63,424	124,785	28,222	29,672	5,225	63,119	3,580	1,609	5,189
Mayo IrlC	53,051	56,026	1,500	25	146,137	146,975	293,112	67,416	78,048	14,341	159,805	6,150	3,185	9,335
Roscommon IrlC	37,399	40,963	1,284	101	104,519	104,210	208,729	42,943	36,391	10,813	90,147	6,981	3,306	10,287
Sligo IrlC	27,059	28,167	749	7	72,428	73,801	146,229	31,419	34,931	8,830	75,180	5,849	3,016	8,865

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.