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	Offaly	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]
Offaly IrlC Total	22,564	25,374	597	23	65,558	65,530	131,088	24,202	12,268	9,311	45,781	5,531	2,601	8,132
Ballyboy IrlBarony	1,261	1,423	49	6	3,659	3,546	7,205	1,309	420	597	2,326	259	167	426
Ballybritt IrlBarony	2,861	3,417	140	7	8,258	8,526	16,784	2,793	1,051	1,223	5,067	709	244	953
Ballycowan IrlBarony	2,786	3,278	68	1	7,723	7,975	15,698	2,206	1,266	1,086	4,558	632	216	848
Clonlisk IrlBarony	2,423	2,633	69	1	6,977	7,101	14,078	2,171	402	714	3,287	390	258	648
Coolestown IrlBarony	1,474	1,682	15	3	4,459	4,350	8,809	1,794	639	910	3,343	565	31	596
Eglish IrlBarony	994	1,090	28	0	2,953	2,883	5,836	1,398	162	421	1,981	215	127	342
Garrycastle IrlBarony	4,613	4,948	81	4	13,541	13,295	26,836	5,861	5,944	1,846	13,651	991	553	1,544
Geashill IrlBarony	1,281	1,390	28	0	3,782	3,773	7,555	1,493	351	558	2,402	437	290	727
Kilcoursey IrlBarony	1,517	1,652	33	1	4,179	4,122	8,301	1,468	958	439	2,865	472	293	765
Philipstown Lower IrlBarony	1,190	1,478	25	0	3,582	3,564	7,146	1,457	423	574	2,454	235	135	370
Philipstown Upper IrlBarony	1,557	1,646	50	0	4,469	4,450	8,919	1,751	322	623	2,696	470	186	656
Warrenstown IrlBarony	607	737	11	0	1,976	1,945	3,921	501	330	320	1,151	156	101	257

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.