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	Ennishowen	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]
Ennishowen IrlBarony Total	8,628	9,300	163	2	23,081	25,066	48,147	11,592	16,146	2,510	30,248	1,007	583	1,590
Fahan Lower IrlPar	843	997	1	0	2,252	2,448	4,700	1,177	1,913	174	3,264	0	41	41
Burt IrlPar	358	390	1	0	962	1,019	1,981	497	748	130	1,375	57	45	102
Inch IrlPar	185	205	2	0	553	541	1,094	308	384	23	715	37	27	64
Clonmany IrlPar	986	1,016	41	0	2,691	2,838	5,529	1,541	1,910	243	3,694	99	42	141
Fahan Upper IrlPar	542	567	5	0	1,312	1,480	2,792	565	992	222	1,779	75	37	112
Desertegny IrlPar	307	318	9	0	758	832	1,590	360	523	48	931	39	16	55
Moville Upper IrlPar	769	777	34	1	1,984	2,174	4,158	1,105	1,326	160	2,591	90	77	167
Moville Lower IrlPar	810	850	12	0	2,130	2,339	4,469	1,361	1,040	138	2,539	37	29	66
Donagh IrlPar	777	865	25	1	2,125	2,354	4,479	974	1,403	278	2,655	179	0	179
Clonca IrlPar	1,019	1,090	8	0	2,935	3,195	6,130	1,262	2,097	302	3,661	198	143	341
Culdaff IrlPar	960	1,063	0	0	2,648	2,882	5,530	1,529	2,123	261	3,913	70	0	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.