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	Massereene Upper	List for Antrim 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]
Massereene Upper IrlBarony Total	5,340	5,827	168	0	14,024	15,192	29,216	3,855	8,953	2,473	15,281	2,574	1,332	3,906
Derryaghy IrlPar	858	910	11	0	2,308	2,475	4,783	834	1,682	263	2,779	289	304	593
Lambeg IrlPar	284	320	9	0	688	805	1,493	173	556	112	841	104	30	134
Blaris IrlPar	2,167	2,496	86	0	5,882	6,493	12,375	1,251	4,910	987	7,148	755	605	1,360
Magheragall IrlPar	556	587	46	0	1,453	1,532	2,985	329	1,161	244	1,734	164	153	317
Magheramesk IrlPar	290	308	0	0	794	812	1,606	261	606	131	998	171	96	267
Aghalee IrlPar	249	265	2	0	566	656	1,222	167	194	114	475	248	60	308
Aghagallon IrlPar	544	597	8	0	1,436	1,551	2,987	436	797	174	1,407	53	36	89
Ballinderry IrlPar	920	992	20	0	2,379	2,569	4,948	703	1,982	429	3,114	188	142	330
Glenavy IrlPar	1,196	1,265	48	0	3,152	3,339	6,491	1,061	915	562	2,538	883	116	999

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.