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	Antrim	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]
Antrim IrlC Total	46,661	53,734	1,625	43	125,053	137,807	262,860	35,543	76,474	21,627	133,644	13,854	6,934	20,788
Antrim Lower IrlBarony	3,298	3,681	66	1	8,616	9,359	17,975	2,951	4,962	1,357	9,270	792	567	1,359
Antrim Upper IrlBarony	2,573	2,855	68	7	6,733	7,215	13,948	1,726	3,637	1,154	6,517	833	550	1,383
Belfast Lower IrlBarony	3,853	4,282	112	2	10,055	10,934	20,989	3,097	6,943	1,648	11,688	1,527	177	1,704
Belfast Upper IrlBarony	7,866	11,521	540	0	23,582	26,901	50,483	3,028	13,838	5,487	22,353	3,164	1,532	4,696
Cary IrlBarony	3,605	3,908	125	0	9,021	10,195	19,216	3,673	5,691	1,148	10,512	767	262	1,029
Dunluce Lower IrlBarony	2,006	2,123	44	22	5,064	5,697	10,761	2,180	4,578	783	7,541	948	546	1,494
Dunluce Upper IrlBarony	3,042	3,187	162	2	7,778	8,755	16,533	2,599	4,766	1,415	8,780	315	202	517
Glenarm Lower IrlBarony	1,533	1,634	34	0	4,180	4,437	8,617	2,421	3,277	777	6,475	183	107	290
Glenarm Upper IrlBarony	1,179	1,352	48	8	3,133	3,698	6,831	643	1,546	742	2,931	275	257	532
Kilconway IrlBarony	3,254	3,449	39	0	8,460	9,215	17,675	2,799	3,021	1,016	6,836	348	214	562
Massereene Lower IrlBarony	1,559	1,719	15	0	4,171	4,486	8,657	1,094	968	801	2,863	339	328	667
Massereene Upper IrlBarony	5,340	5,827	168	0	14,024	15,192	29,216	3,855	8,953	2,473	15,281	2,574	1,332	3,906
Toome Lower IrlBarony	3,855	4,075	153	0	10,016	11,011	21,027	2,105	6,713	1,727	10,545	1,123	524	1,647
Toome Upper IrlBarony	3,698	4,121	51	1	10,220	10,712	20,932	3,372	7,581	1,099	12,052	666	336	1,002
Carrickfergus IrlBarony	1,367	1,760	73	2	3,889	4,134	8,023	759	2,020	945	3,724	437	351	788

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.