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	Donegal	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]
Donegal IrlC Total	44,800	48,030	911	23	120,559	127,711	248,270	52,370	73,604	14,117	140,091	5,866	3,655	9,521
Banagh IrlBarony	5,922	6,231	117	5	16,269	16,883	33,152	6,831	8,372	1,352	16,555	980	445	1,425
Boylagh IrlBarony	2,692	2,802	8	0	7,662	7,740	15,402	3,235	2,333	567	6,135	537	258	795
Ennishowen IrlBarony	8,628	9,300	163	2	23,081	25,066	48,147	11,592	16,146	2,510	30,248	1,007	583	1,590
Kilmacrenan IrlBarony	10,852	11,471	254	3	29,160	30,461	59,621	12,624	18,448	3,028	34,100	1,179	694	1,873
Raphoe IrlBarony	11,129	12,051	249	4	29,360	31,939	61,299	11,575	19,583	4,715	35,873	1,609	1,269	2,878
Tirhugh IrlBarony	5,577	6,175	120	9	15,027	15,622	30,649	6,513	8,722	1,945	17,180	554	406	960

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.