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	Coleraine	Show Londonderry 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]
Coleraine IrlBarony Total	5,418	5,677	131	0	14,380	15,566	29,946	4,405	10,296	1,652	16,353	762	770	1,532
Ballymoney IrlPar	1,766	1,886	75	1	4,641	5,082	9,723	1,214	2,758	925	4,897	257	124	381
Desertoghill IrlPar	750	786	22	0	1,965	2,190	4,155	643	1,353	205	2,201	43	48	91
Macosquin IrlPar	1,069	1,106	10	0	2,781	3,021	5,802	881	2,167	302	3,350	365	331	696
Aghadowey IrlPar	1,304	1,385	15	0	3,702	3,879	7,581	1,016	2,366	474	3,856	26	28	54
Dunboe IrlPar	773	800	16	0	2,086	2,216	4,302	617	1,602	280	2,499	97	119	216
Killowen IrlPar	496	532	21	0	1,141	1,385	2,526	275	984	127	1,386	80	68	148
Errigal IrlPar	809	842	40	0	2,143	2,253	4,396	774	1,414	221	2,409	132	152	284
Tamlaght Ocrilly IrlPar	1,599	1,671	45	0	3,994	4,311	8,305	1,605	3,233	492	5,330	157	127	284
Kilrea IrlPar	670	708	11	0	1,785	1,911	3,696	618	1,446	262	2,326	47	33	80

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