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".

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Click on the 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]
Belfast Lower IrlBarony Total	3,853	4,282	112	2	10,055	10,934	20,989	3,097	6,943	1,648	11,688	1,527	177	1,704
Carnmoney IrlPar	837	968	27	0	2,163	2,382	4,545	705	1,563	389	2,657	432	24	456
Shankill IrlPar	6,746	10,280	527	0	20,625	23,552	44,177	1,886	11,946	5,065	18,897	2,826	1,358	4,184
Island Magee IrlPar	431	483	2	0	1,076	1,223	2,299	445	698	230	1,373	292	15	307
Ballylinny IrlPar	436	467	5	0	1,188	1,284	2,472	385	986	192	1,563	30	17	47
Templepatrick IrlPar	781	879	3	1	2,098	2,237	4,335	694	1,428	333	2,455	255	158	413
Templecorran IrlPar	244	283	38	0	634	707	1,341	220	359	122	701	71	31	102
Ballynure IrlPar	581	625	13	0	1,552	1,613	3,165	343	967	206	1,516	245	0	245
Raloo IrlPar	339	362	10	0	883	958	1,841	271	526	102	899	170	0	170
Kilroot IrlPar	111	120	4	0	274	299	573	99	145	70	314	65	0	65
Glynn IrlPar	464	500	10	1	1,138	1,329	2,467	305	744	157	1,206	105	0	105
Ballymartin IrlPar	104	117	2	0	277	311	588	149	210	37	396	20	0	20

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Belfast Lower IrlBarony:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1821
Percentage of persons entitled to voluntary schooling attending	1821
Percent in Agriculture	1821

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.

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.