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	Nethercross	Show Dublin 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]
Nethercross IrlBarony Total	1,385	1,509	78	0	3,936	3,979	7,915	1,553	824	759	3,136	401	365	766
Killossery IrlPar	47	50	2	0	163	137	300	84	7	36	127	40	22	62
Donabate IrlPar	82	88	0	0	236	244	480	113	24	76	213	0	0	0
Kilsallaghan IrlPar	88	111	3	0	289	261	550	150	19	51	220	5	7	12
Killeek IrlPar	29	36	1	0	80	86	166	33	2	13	48	0	0	0
Swords IrlPar	502	564	24	0	1,462	1,514	2,976	521	320	333	1,174	227	220	447
Lusk IrlPar	390	411	26	0	1,036	1,093	2,129	461	295	166	922	37	40	77
Clonmethan IrlPar	69	77	1	0	235	205	440	112	23	25	160	16	12	28
Portraine IrlPar	88	90	4	0	263	243	506	131	53	42	226	35	18	53
Finglas IrlPar	333	364	23	0	937	919	1,856	326	133	190	649	86	75	161

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