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	Athlone	List for Roscommon 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]
Athlone IrlBarony Total	8,232	9,478	178	23	23,415	22,441	45,856	7,649	2,309	3,172	13,130	1,294	628	1,922
Taghboy IrlPar	487	498	3	0	1,324	1,280	2,604	468	158	103	729	44	6	50
Athleague IrlPar	768	794	18	4	2,189	2,140	4,329	719	389	258	1,366	104	56	160
St Peters IrlPar	1,031	2,021	75	0	3,828	3,322	7,150	627	596	1,292	2,515	330	179	509
Drum IrlPar	764	780	14	0	1,956	1,962	3,918	849	80	164	1,093	93	49	142
Cam IrlPar	646	678	4	0	1,746	1,680	3,426	678	85	155	918	26	5	31
Taghmaconnell IrlPar	604	620	5	0	1,652	1,573	3,225	652	127	186	965	35	8	43
St Johns IrlPar	545	562	6	0	1,468	1,472	2,940	652	211	114	977	167	89	256
Kilmeane IrlPar	437	456	7	0	1,184	1,208	2,392	446	153	177	776	40	40	80
Kiltoom IrlPar	730	778	5	0	1,955	1,951	3,906	724	364	176	1,264	126	73	199
Dysart IrlPar	275	289	7	5	727	718	1,445	241	28	59	328	0	0	0
Tisrara IrlPar	617	639	7	2	1,686	1,643	3,329	506	163	169	838	134	44	178
Rahara IrlPar	266	269	5	4	730	690	1,420	242	19	84	345	30	20	50
Killinvoy IrlPar	385	396	7	4	1,106	1,037	2,143	322	92	129	543	60	20	80
Fuerty IrlPar	977	1,006	18	5	2,716	2,609	5,325	889	162	202	1,253	119	40	159
Roscommon IrlPar	1,266	1,481	52	0	3,536	3,583	7,119	1,086	1,843	491	3,420	318	244	562

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.