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	Kells	Show Kilkenny 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]
Kells IrlBarony Total	2,866	3,075	66	14	8,372	8,628	17,000	2,921	1,105	1,224	5,250	1,382	279	1,661
Kilmaganny IrlPar	572	606	7	8	1,734	1,776	3,510	458	155	198	811	270	10	280
Killamery IrlPar	293	297	0	0	942	907	1,849	910	72	162	1,144	306	0	306
Coolaghmore IrlPar	216	229	3	0	719	740	1,459	232	19	91	342	16	0	16
Kilree IrlPar	98	102	2	0	342	336	678	100	20	58	178	24	16	40
Kells IrlPar	253	269	5	2	787	799	1,586	199	93	145	437	124	63	187
Ballytobin IrlPar	93	94	2	2	292	304	596	87	23	58	168	70	45	115
Dunnamaggan IrlPar	176	192	6	2	532	563	1,095	148	70	85	303	50	20	70
Mallardstown IrlPar	88	89	2	0	292	257	549	111	27	61	199	0	0	0
Callan IrlPar	1,077	1,197	39	0	2,732	2,946	5,678	676	626	366	1,668	522	125	647

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Kells 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.