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	Londonderry	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]
Londonderry IrlC Total	34,691	37,557	891	9	92,979	100,890	193,869	30,757	65,470	12,729	108,956	4,610	2,111	6,721
Coleraine IrlBarony	5,418	5,677	131	0	14,380	15,566	29,946	4,405	10,296	1,652	16,353	762	770	1,532
Coleraine North East Liberties Of IrlBarony	1,780	1,908	63	0	4,484	5,155	9,639	863	949	912	2,724	246	30	276
Keenaght IrlBarony	5,901	6,223	184	1	15,128	16,840	31,968	5,686	11,398	2,419	19,503	878	592	1,470
Londonderry North West Liberties Of IrlBarony	2,572	3,387	123	3	8,131	8,840	16,971	1,179	3,044	1,963	6,186	1,018	73	1,091
Loughinsholin IrlBarony	13,535	14,622	331	3	36,602	38,854	75,456	12,912	30,876	4,475	48,263	1,546	646	2,192
Tirkeeran IrlBarony	5,485	5,740	59	2	14,254	15,635	29,889	5,712	8,907	1,308	15,927	160	0	160

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.