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	Clare	List for Galway 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]
Clare IrlBarony Total	6,350	6,836	163	7	18,963	18,700	37,663	7,739	7,815	2,803	18,357	1,055	498	1,553
Athenry IrlPar	1,835	1,950	32	0	5,521	5,456	10,977	2,076	1,129	706	3,911	263	195	458
Cummer IrlPar	242	242	3	0	736	695	1,431	413	415	103	931	34	20	54
Kilmoylan IrlPar	330	335	0	0	974	885	1,859	470	508	123	1,101	0	0	0
Annaghdown IrlPar	1,019	1,047	11	0	2,961	2,911	5,872	1,657	1,788	308	3,753	53	45	98
Killower IrlPar	144	147	0	2	476	426	902	228	264	91	583	0	0	0
Belclare IrlPar	325	340	5	1	977	948	1,925	518	604	165	1,287	103	24	127
Tuam IrlPar	2,062	2,432	114	1	6,165	6,210	12,375	1,575	1,325	1,014	3,914	644	316	960
Killererin IrlPar	599	621	9	0	1,842	1,718	3,560	606	171	199	976	100	45	145
Claregalway IrlPar	486	519	4	0	1,584	1,562	3,146	501	317	290	1,108	0	0	0
Kilbennan IrlPar	344	353	2	0	928	942	1,870	459	307	88	854	81	47	128
Lackagh IrlPar	317	322	3	0	976	968	1,944	300	59	110	469	101	72	173
Killursa IrlPar	609	644	5	0	1,856	1,717	3,573	760	1,041	295	2,096	76	24	100
Kilkilvery IrlPar	197	203	3	0	613	612	1,225	279	386	103	768	0	0	0
Killeany IrlPar	211	213	4	0	542	595	1,137	313	282	65	660	0	0	0
Kilcloony IrlPar	1,057	1,298	39	5	3,313	3,476	6,789	1,024	815	768	2,607	611	318	929
Abbeyknockmoy IrlPar	451	464	0	0	1,304	1,232	2,536	377	71	140	588	56	14	70

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.