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	Garrycastle	List for Offaly IrlC

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]
Garrycastle IrlBarony Total	4,613	4,948	81	4	13,541	13,295	26,836	5,861	5,944	1,846	13,651	991	553	1,544
Kilcomin IrlPar	233	254	5	0	623	671	1,294	173	35	42	250	30	13	43
Reynagh IrlPar	720	826	28	0	2,241	2,254	4,495	641	1,014	433	2,088	136	86	222
Lusmagh IrlPar	530	549	4	0	1,522	1,483	3,005	837	527	95	1,459	103	61	164
Gallen IrlPar	845	898	11	2	2,434	2,387	4,821	1,213	988	311	2,512	250	139	389
Tisaran IrlPar	348	365	6	0	1,101	1,028	2,129	475	437	138	1,050	40	32	72
Wheery IrlPar	564	602	11	1	1,702	1,709	3,411	772	815	290	1,877	166	104	270
Clonmacnoise IrlPar	686	731	9	0	1,889	1,870	3,759	849	707	238	1,794	106	29	135
Lemanaghan IrlPar	920	977	1	1	2,652	2,564	5,216	1,074	1,456	341	2,871	190	102	292

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.