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	Munster	List for Ireland Dep

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]
Munster IProv Total	306,999	357,366	10,972	398	960,119	975,493	1,935,612	320,063	145,917	150,079	616,059	89,225	40,070	129,295
Clare IrlC	35,373	39,214	841	59	105,056	103,033	208,089	39,528	16,695	12,904	69,127	8,159	3,794	11,953
Cork IrlC	103,281	115,959	3,756	80	314,172	315,614	629,786	101,974	35,187	43,850	181,011	28,022	12,421	40,443
County of the City of Cork IrlC	11,180	21,528	1,003	17	46,787	53,871	100,658	9,002	14,386	11,776	35,164	6,180	3,722	9,902
Kerry IrlC	35,597	38,059	602	57	108,617	107,568	216,185	34,882	18,873	16,616	70,371	10,106	3,532	13,638
Limerick IrlC	35,201	38,746	919	50	108,799	109,633	218,432	40,517	22,120	16,386	79,023	13,505	5,333	18,838
County of the City of Limerick IrlC	7,208	12,419	619	4	28,117	30,928	59,045	6,594	8,352	6,846	21,792	3,005	2,563	5,568
Tipperary IrlC	55,297	62,457	1,896	92	172,468	174,428	346,896	66,465	20,174	26,456	113,095	14,160	6,586	20,746
Waterford IrlC	20,189	22,381	848	37	63,094	64,748	127,842	19,370	5,372	11,329	36,071	4,612	1,566	6,178
County of the City of Waterford IrlC	3,671	6,603	488	2	13,009	15,670	28,679	1,731	4,758	3,916	10,405	1,476	553	2,029

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.