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	Limerick	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]
Limerick IrlC Total	35,201	38,746	919	50	108,799	109,633	218,432	40,517	22,120	16,386	79,023	13,505	5,333	18,838
Limerick IrlCity	7,208	12,419	619	4	28,117	30,928	59,045	6,594	8,352	6,846	21,792	3,005	2,563	5,568
Clanwilliam IrlBarony	2,694	3,072	54	0	8,234	8,267	16,501	2,740	802	1,139	4,681	916	414	1,330
Connello Lower IrlBarony	7,025	7,432	156	14	21,379	21,274	42,653	6,601	3,732	3,388	13,721	2,839	1,242	4,081
Connello Upper IrlBarony	7,221	7,606	178	9	22,359	22,435	44,794	8,111	4,720	3,491	16,322	2,443	804	3,247
Coonagh IrlBarony	1,955	2,029	45	0	6,164	6,135	12,299	3,032	2,650	1,045	6,727	567	0	567
Coshma IrlBarony	2,759	3,145	70	6	8,629	8,766	17,395	3,215	1,275	1,457	5,947	1,047	546	1,593
Coshlea IrlBarony	5,075	5,602	129	2	15,666	15,898	31,564	5,925	3,947	2,503	12,375	2,169	935	3,104
Kenry IrlBarony	2,180	2,407	120	0	6,638	6,627	13,265	2,604	893	801	4,298	1,066	522	1,588
Owneybeg IrlBarony	1,417	1,629	42	4	4,362	4,289	8,651	1,646	609	502	2,757	267	100	367
Pubblebrien IrlBarony	1,655	2,180	34	0	5,305	5,500	10,805	2,300	1,702	841	4,843	642	258	900
Smallcounty IrlBarony	3,220	3,644	91	15	10,063	10,442	20,505	4,343	1,790	1,219	7,352	1,549	512	2,061

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.