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	Banagh	List for Donegal IrlC

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]
Banagh IrlBarony Total	5,922	6,231	117	5	16,269	16,883	33,152	6,831	8,372	1,352	16,555	980	445	1,425
Inver IrlPar	1,815	2,018	35	0	5,011	5,224	10,235	2,216	2,822	549	5,587	162	91	253
Killaghtee IrlPar	833	836	23	0	2,216	2,329	4,545	1,165	1,387	150	2,702	409	136	545
Killybegs Upper IrlPar	648	667	15	0	1,683	1,856	3,539	463	758	137	1,358	103	70	173
Killybegs Lower IrlPar	379	390	12	2	1,051	1,089	2,140	290	345	83	718	80	6	86
Inniskeel Upper IrlPar	378	381	0	0	1,053	1,073	2,126	322	234	66	622	47	17	64
Kilcar IrlPar	636	639	0	0	1,705	1,723	3,428	845	978	79	1,902	0	0	0
Glencolumbkille IrlPar	520	524	8	3	1,559	1,491	3,050	708	392	105	1,205	65	22	87
Killymard IrlPar	713	776	24	0	1,991	2,098	4,089	822	1,456	183	2,461	114	103	217

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.