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	Armagh	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]
Armagh IrlC Total	36,260	39,860	1,228	44	96,075	101,352	197,427	28,905	67,182	14,521	110,608	8,529	3,878	12,407
Armagh IrlBarony	6,387	7,782	234	8	17,692	18,521	36,213	4,002	11,106	3,477	18,585	2,716	543	3,259
Fews Lower IrlBarony	3,560	3,816	88	2	9,419	9,924	19,343	3,443	6,304	1,337	11,084	1,052	554	1,606
Fews Upper IrlBarony	3,925	4,101	221	3	10,410	10,687	21,097	4,146	5,157	1,375	10,678	445	114	559
Oneilland East IrlBarony	3,268	3,668	63	2	8,666	9,323	17,989	1,517	8,231	1,006	10,754	821	524	1,345
Oneilland West IrlBarony	7,133	7,536	165	7	18,742	19,696	38,438	4,337	17,175	2,344	23,856	1,183	863	2,046
Orior Lower IrlBarony	4,120	4,351	92	0	10,386	11,356	21,742	3,084	7,025	1,519	11,628	845	550	1,395
Orior Upper IrlBarony	4,914	5,463	337	22	12,993	13,444	26,437	5,499	6,107	2,192	13,798	708	412	1,120
Tiranny IrlBarony	2,953	3,143	28	0	7,767	8,401	16,168	2,877	6,077	1,271	10,225	759	318	1,077

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.