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	Mayo	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]
Mayo IrlC Total	53,051	56,026	1,500	25	146,137	146,975	293,112	67,416	78,048	14,341	159,805	6,150	3,185	9,335
Burrishoole IrlBarony	5,783	5,975	150	9	16,339	16,244	32,583	8,087	11,536	544	20,167	430	174	604
Carra IrlBarony	7,336	8,082	162	2	20,599	20,525	41,124	8,564	11,259	2,308	22,131	1,104	695	1,799
Clanmorris IrlBarony	3,510	3,660	108	0	9,321	9,502	18,823	4,132	2,588	903	7,623	295	157	452
Costello IrlBarony	6,359	6,594	159	5	16,419	16,432	32,851	9,368	11,015	1,451	21,834	326	140	466
Erris IrlBarony	3,168	3,360	126	0	8,910	8,969	17,879	2,968	1,680	804	5,452	92	39	131
Gallen IrlBarony	6,390	6,590	105	0	17,144	17,351	34,495	8,504	9,398	1,631	19,533	725	450	1,175
Kilmaine IrlBarony	5,486	5,829	97	0	14,861	14,953	29,814	6,684	7,294	1,775	15,753	767	365	1,132
Murrisk IrlBarony	4,477	4,870	197	1	13,231	13,198	26,429	6,352	7,353	1,127	14,832	731	419	1,150
Tirawley IrlBarony	10,542	11,066	396	8	29,313	29,801	59,114	12,757	15,925	3,798	32,480	1,680	746	2,426

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.