Vision of Britain | 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".

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Click on the 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]
Leinster IProv Total	278,398	352,320	9,076	479	859,798	897,694	1,757,492	252,608	215,835	173,215	641,658	75,510	38,788	114,298
Carlow IrlC	13,028	14,630	456	12	38,821	40,131	78,952	12,110	4,914	6,196	23,220	4,063	2,949	7,012
County of the Town of Drogheda IrlC	3,164	4,168	195	5	8,702	9,416	18,118	845	4,796	1,963	7,604	716	431	1,147
Dublin IrlC	20,791	33,695	894	27	71,661	78,350	150,011	16,634	18,429	21,287	56,350	6,002	3,440	9,442
County of the City of Dublin IrlC	14,949	49,794	792	45	86,082	99,799	185,881	463	45,408	37,343	83,214	9,235	4,748	13,983
Kildare IrlC	16,478	19,180	406	17	49,988	49,077	99,065	16,551	7,984	9,579	34,114	3,998	2,393	6,391
Kilkenny IrlC	25,949	27,958	756	54	77,630	81,086	158,716	25,699	8,059	12,523	46,281	8,303	3,542	11,845
County of the City of Kilkenny IrlC	3,840	5,363	470	13	10,833	12,397	23,230	1,085	4,778	2,061	7,924	1,788	878	2,666
Offaly IrlC	22,564	25,374	597	23	65,558	65,530	131,088	24,202	12,268	9,311	45,781	5,531	2,601	8,132
Longford IrlC	18,987	21,650	481	23	53,215	54,355	107,570	19,673	20,185	7,616	47,474	4,798	2,623	7,421
Louth IrlC	18,138	19,891	885	60	49,363	51,648	101,011	16,556	22,171	8,638	47,365	2,740	1,182	3,922
Meath IrlC	27,942	30,125	574	37	79,778	79,405	159,183	28,948	20,301	12,769	62,018	5,038	2,591	7,629
Laoighis IrlC	23,105	24,945	538	86	66,738	67,537	134,275	23,746	9,636	8,321	41,703	4,825	1,998	6,823
Westmeath IrlC	23,015	24,561	663	25	63,904	64,915	128,819	23,079	15,867	9,743	48,689	4,952	2,374	7,326
Wexford IrlC	29,159	31,939	818	21	82,322	88,484	170,806	25,890	12,539	16,299	54,728	7,924	3,930	11,854
Wicklow IrlC	17,289	19,047	551	31	55,203	55,564	110,767	17,127	8,500	9,566	35,193	5,597	3,108	8,705

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Leinster IProv:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1821
Percentage of persons entitled to voluntary schooling attending	1821
Percent in Agriculture	1821

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.

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.