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	Moycashel	List for Westmeath 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]
Moycashel IrlBarony Total	2,585	2,656	95	1	6,945	7,007	13,952	2,492	1,948	1,000	5,440	516	302	818
Durrow IrlPar	504	518	5	0	1,425	1,442	2,867	463	128	149	740	160	40	200
Kilcumreragh IrlPar	670	695	12	0	1,713	1,772	3,485	649	225	206	1,080	163	130	293
Ardnurcher Or Horseleap IrlPar	621	643	22	1	1,761	1,680	3,441	610	269	227	1,106	162	89	251
Newtown IrlPar	392	406	4	0	1,079	1,065	2,144	443	364	152	959	80	50	130
Dysart IrlPar	182	182	7	1	478	463	941	248	38	49	335	0	0	0
Kilbeggan IrlPar	679	713	28	0	1,706	1,785	3,491	644	966	226	1,836	132	57	189
Rahugh IrlPar	177	179	9	0	513	490	1,003	217	195	79	491	80	44	124
Castletownkindalen IrlPar	625	638	31	0	1,687	1,669	3,356	536	197	257	990	5	12	17

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.