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	Dundalk Upper	Show Louth 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]
Dundalk Upper IrlBarony Total	4,001	4,905	265	30	11,055	11,793	22,848	3,225	4,875	2,353	10,453	940	209	1,149
Creggan IrlPar	2,367	2,450	182	17	6,119	6,357	12,476	2,680	3,652	783	7,115	208	35	243
Inishkeen IrlPar	626	666	12	3	1,719	1,716	3,435	651	1,385	270	2,306	52	20	72
Ballymascanlan IrlPar	1,142	1,164	24	2	2,970	3,265	6,235	1,508	1,817	412	3,737	30	24	54
Dundalk IrlPar	2,032	2,865	172	2	5,907	6,445	12,352	1,093	1,911	1,596	4,600	687	158	845
Louth IrlPar	1,451	1,516	30	3	3,923	3,955	7,878	1,625	2,618	713	4,956	218	117	335
Castletown IrlPar	189	200	9	2	469	527	996	174	50	71	295	50	0	50
Haynestown IrlPar	92	93	1	0	236	237	473	89	161	49	299	25	13	38
Dunbin IrlPar	174	177	7	0	470	477	947	201	355	63	619	0	0	0
Ballybarrack IrlPar	74	76	1	0	218	217	435	69	148	30	247	20	10	30
Haggardstown IrlPar	171	175	19	0	439	482	921	163	318	60	541	30	20	50
Barronstown IrlPar	155	155	5	0	443	448	891	194	170	63	427	70	0	70
Roche IrlPar	244	249	9	0	694	656	1,350	328	293	104	725	0	0	0
Kane IrlPar	69	70	4	0	184	185	369	79	78	32	189	20	0	20
Philipstown IrlPar	60	66	3	0	168	198	366	59	52	43	154	0	0	0
Faughart IrlPar	304	313	9	9	810	884	1,694	371	553	110	1,034	0	0	0

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