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	Wicklow	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]
Wicklow IrlC Total	17,289	19,047	551	31	55,203	55,564	110,767	17,127	8,500	9,566	35,193	5,597	3,108	8,705
Arklow IrlBarony	3,085	3,549	114	5	10,138	10,282	20,420	2,608	1,618	2,401	6,627	1,494	678	2,172
Ballinacor IrlBarony	3,475	3,635	105	2	10,773	10,610	21,383	3,468	2,223	1,612	7,303	985	556	1,541
Newcastle IrlBarony	2,112	2,214	113	7	6,556	6,742	13,298	2,390	815	1,090	4,295	744	226	970
Rathdown IrlBarony	1,450	1,664	53	7	4,544	4,746	9,290	1,368	590	1,051	3,009	549	529	1,078
Shillelagh IrlBarony	2,248	2,438	41	0	6,820	7,056	13,876	2,085	563	1,088	3,736	641	295	936
Talbotstown Lower IrlBarony	2,067	2,202	38	5	6,920	6,783	13,703	2,206	654	812	3,672	395	206	601
Talbotstown Upper IrlBarony	2,852	3,345	87	5	9,452	9,345	18,797	3,002	2,037	1,512	6,551	789	618	1,407

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.