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	Waterford	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]
Waterford IrlC Total	20,189	22,381	848	37	63,094	64,748	127,842	19,370	5,372	11,329	36,071	4,612	1,566	6,178
Waterford IrlCity	3,671	6,603	488	2	13,009	15,670	28,679	1,731	4,758	3,916	10,405	1,476	553	2,029
Coshbride IrlBarony	1,608	1,700	115	3	4,476	4,564	9,040	1,586	707	575	2,868	317	137	454
Coshmore IrlBarony	2,515	2,777	133	17	8,107	8,084	16,191	2,718	918	1,082	4,718	602	339	941
Decies Within Drum IrlBarony	3,138	3,388	58	5	10,287	10,112	20,399	3,038	569	1,682	5,289	648	262	910
Decies Without Drum IrlBarony	5,155	5,704	185	2	15,934	16,290	32,224	4,216	1,115	3,289	8,620	1,537	447	1,984
Gaultiere IrlBarony	1,592	1,764	80	4	5,010	5,305	10,315	1,713	290	1,241	3,244	368	107	475
Glenahiry IrlBarony	679	723	16	1	2,328	2,276	4,604	656	102	395	1,153	2	0	2
Middlethird IrlBarony	1,833	2,095	140	1	5,686	6,043	11,729	2,222	390	904	3,516	505	67	572
Upperthird IrlBarony	3,669	4,230	121	4	11,266	12,074	23,340	3,221	1,281	2,161	6,663	633	207	840

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.