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	Kells Lower	List for Meath 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]
Kells Lower IrlBarony Total	2,166	2,273	25	0	6,081	6,211	12,292	1,962	711	967	3,640	475	231	706
Enniskeen IrlPar	1,421	1,484	65	2	3,818	3,829	7,647	1,432	1,619	595	3,646	141	62	203
Newtown IrlPar	29	30	0	0	100	89	189	39	6	18	63	0	0	0
Emlagh IrlPar	56	62	0	0	147	172	319	64	14	36	114	0	0	0
Kilbeg IrlPar	274	291	6	0	781	763	1,544	268	96	127	491	128	65	193
Moynalty IrlPar	904	961	13	0	2,551	2,657	5,208	811	289	387	1,487	225	114	339
Cruicetown IrlPar	80	82	0	0	241	242	483	83	20	51	154	0	7	7
Staholmog IrlPar	129	138	1	0	354	352	706	121	40	48	209	0	0	0
Kilmainham IrlPar	239	243	3	0	688	657	1,345	204	73	105	382	25	8	33
Moybolgue IrlPar	317	325	2	0	837	891	1,728	266	117	117	500	80	31	111
Nobber IrlPar	990	1,062	14	3	2,835	2,887	5,722	972	513	376	1,861	177	80	257

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.