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	Ulster	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]
Ulster IProv Total	359,801	390,709	9,806	239	968,061	1,030,433	1,998,494	328,793	584,127	143,818	1,056,738	69,490	35,244	104,734
Antrim IrlC	46,661	53,734	1,625	43	125,053	137,807	262,860	35,543	76,474	21,627	133,644	13,854	6,934	20,788
Armagh IrlC	36,260	39,860	1,228	44	96,075	101,352	197,427	28,905	67,182	14,521	110,608	8,529	3,878	12,407
County of the Town of Carrickfergus IrlC	1,367	1,760	73	2	3,889	4,134	8,023	759	2,020	945	3,724	437	351	788
Cavan IrlC	34,148	36,809	627	29	96,785	98,291	195,076	39,840	45,334	13,739	98,913	6,080	2,726	8,806
Donegal IrlC	44,800	48,030	911	23	120,559	127,711	248,270	52,370	73,604	14,117	140,091	5,866	3,655	9,521
Down IrlC	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
Fermanagh IrlC	22,585	25,263	374	11	63,627	67,370	130,997	21,577	25,432	9,385	56,394	4,032	2,303	6,335
Londonderry IrlC	34,691	37,557	891	9	92,979	100,890	193,869	30,757	65,470	12,729	108,956	4,610	2,111	6,721
Monaghan IrlC	32,378	34,063	896	41	85,505	89,192	174,697	33,799	58,068	11,568	103,435	4,517	2,743	7,260
Tyrone IrlC	47,164	50,012	1,327	13	126,990	134,875	261,865	38,874	75,187	19,644	133,705	8,484	4,078	12,562

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.