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".

Show top level table	Burrishoole	Show Mayo IrlC table

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]
Burrishoole IrlBarony Total	5,783	5,975	150	9	16,339	16,244	32,583	8,087	11,536	544	20,167	430	174	604
Burrishoole IrlPar	2,345	2,442	75	0	6,669	6,546	13,215	3,466	4,578	132	8,176	12	0	12
Aghagower IrlPar	1,775	1,820	0	2	4,862	4,805	9,667	2,332	3,165	249	5,746	269	130	399
Kilmeena IrlPar	1,264	1,295	57	7	3,665	3,619	7,284	1,885	2,300	220	4,405	126	46	172
Islandeady IrlPar	1,320	1,355	14	0	3,681	3,737	7,418	1,821	2,981	49	4,851	150	70	220
Kilmaclasser IrlPar	553	570	13	0	1,571	1,571	3,142	584	1,434	13	2,031	40	20	60
Ballintober IrlPar	908	912	4	0	2,360	2,384	4,744	1,349	1,884	100	3,333	40	46	86

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Burrishoole 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.