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	Westmeath	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]
Westmeath IrlC Total	23,015	24,561	663	25	63,904	64,915	128,819	23,079	15,867	9,743	48,689	4,952	2,374	7,326
Brawny IrlBarony	1,105	1,373	62	7	3,275	3,388	6,663	838	928	484	2,250	409	38	447
Clonlonan IrlBarony	2,197	2,468	79	1	5,970	6,231	12,201	1,606	584	665	2,855	523	302	825
Corkaree IrlBarony	1,085	1,147	50	2	3,308	3,019	6,327	851	355	674	1,880	606	188	794
Delvin IrlBarony	1,698	1,763	31	0	4,614	4,664	9,278	1,816	1,469	707	3,992	344	234	578
Fore IrlBarony	2,723	2,877	49	0	7,119	7,494	14,613	2,329	1,374	1,155	4,858	20	0	20
Farbill IrlBarony	1,440	1,672	40	0	4,542	4,373	8,915	1,483	588	749	2,820	322	170	492
Fartullagh IrlBarony	1,357	1,427	9	3	3,822	3,869	7,691	1,358	623	572	2,553	273	159	432
Kilkenny West IrlBarony	1,869	1,919	27	0	4,919	5,140	10,059	2,139	1,762	680	4,581	425	0	425
Moyashel and Magheradernon IrlBarony	2,377	2,540	110	6	6,606	6,802	13,408	2,601	1,204	993	4,798	638	424	1,062
Moycashel IrlBarony	2,585	2,656	95	1	6,945	7,007	13,952	2,492	1,948	1,000	5,440	516	302	818
Moygoish IrlBarony	1,967	2,044	19	0	5,519	5,700	11,219	2,564	3,279	1,226	7,069	331	264	595
Rathconrath IrlBarony	2,612	2,675	92	5	7,265	7,228	14,493	3,002	1,753	838	5,593	545	293	838

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.