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	Kilkenny	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]
Kilkenny IrlC Total	25,949	27,958	756	54	77,630	81,086	158,716	25,699	8,059	12,523	46,281	8,303	3,542	11,845
Kilkenny IrlCity	3,840	5,363	470	13	10,833	12,397	23,230	1,085	4,778	2,061	7,924	1,788	878	2,666
Crannagh IrlBarony	2,303	2,464	54	6	7,143	7,290	14,433	2,182	702	1,231	4,115	626	285	911
Fassadinin IrlBarony	4,344	4,682	139	8	12,463	12,652	25,115	3,778	1,457	1,643	6,878	916	534	1,450
Galmoy IrlBarony	2,457	2,575	80	11	6,948	7,366	14,314	2,277	636	923	3,836	575	207	782
Gowran IrlBarony	5,721	6,349	216	5	17,042	17,855	34,897	5,945	2,059	2,988	10,992	1,786	1,064	2,850
Ida IrlBarony	2,784	2,958	44	2	8,692	9,188	17,880	3,260	689	1,279	5,228	946	276	1,222
Iverk IrlBarony	2,187	2,319	75	2	6,733	7,479	14,212	2,193	699	1,294	4,186	998	438	1,436
Kells IrlBarony	2,866	3,075	66	14	8,372	8,628	17,000	2,921	1,105	1,224	5,250	1,382	279	1,661
Knocktopher IrlBarony	2,027	2,200	49	1	6,210	6,579	12,789	1,905	453	1,131	3,489	561	265	826
Shillelogher IrlBarony	1,260	1,336	33	5	4,027	4,049	8,076	1,238	259	810	2,307	513	194	707

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.