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	Roscommon	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]
Roscommon IrlC Total	37,399	40,963	1,284	101	104,519	104,210	208,729	42,943	36,391	10,813	90,147	6,981	3,306	10,287
Athlone IrlBarony	8,232	9,478	178	23	23,415	22,441	45,856	7,649	2,309	3,172	13,130	1,294	628	1,922
Ballymoe IrlBarony	1,125	1,215	18	0	3,147	3,138	6,285	1,470	1,620	361	3,451	235	85	320
Ballintobber IrlBarony	10,968	11,519	288	19	29,984	30,150	60,134	13,224	13,472	2,629	29,325	2,377	962	3,339
Boyle IrlBarony	9,399	10,482	152	29	26,589	26,786	53,375	11,980	12,043	2,677	26,700	1,788	1,040	2,828
Moycarn IrlBarony	1,142	1,241	110	18	3,306	3,279	6,585	1,337	392	317	2,046	211	74	285
Roscommon IrlBarony	6,533	7,028	538	12	18,078	18,416	36,494	7,283	6,555	1,657	15,495	1,076	517	1,593

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.