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".

Show top level table	Costello	Show Mayo IrlC table

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]
Costello IrlBarony Total	6,359	6,594	159	5	16,419	16,432	32,851	9,368	11,015	1,451	21,834	326	140	466
Knock IrlPar	430	437	24	2	1,098	1,106	2,204	610	694	131	1,435	56	26	82
Annagh IrlPar	1,114	1,144	40	2	2,838	2,911	5,749	1,620	1,757	334	3,711	72	24	96
Bekan IrlPar	799	812	34	1	2,074	2,124	4,198	1,145	1,366	217	2,728	79	39	118
Aghamore IrlPar	908	1,011	7	0	2,443	2,496	4,939	1,323	1,583	246	3,152	36	24	60
Kilmovee IrlPar	839	851	13	0	2,131	2,117	4,248	1,289	1,624	140	3,053	0	0	0
Kilbeagh IrlPar	1,119	1,134	27	0	2,829	2,815	5,644	1,910	2,080	142	4,132	83	27	110
Kilturra IrlPar	348	349	5	0	875	872	1,747	496	559	92	1,147	0	0	0
Castlemore IrlPar	483	499	5	0	1,300	1,284	2,584	658	795	78	1,531	0	0	0
Kilcolman IrlPar	800	848	13	0	2,109	2,031	4,140	990	1,294	200	2,484	0	0	0

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

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.