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".

List for top level	Wexford	List for Ireland Dep

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]
Wexford IrlC Total	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
Ballaghkeen IrlBarony	4,684	5,019	117	5	12,856	13,764	26,620	4,357	2,071	2,259	8,687	881	475	1,356
Bantry IrlBarony	4,838	5,259	189	0	13,392	14,696	28,088	3,964	1,687	2,661	8,312	1,836	811	2,647
Bargy IrlBarony	1,864	1,988	11	1	5,415	5,797	11,212	1,365	558	1,111	3,034	564	250	814
Forth IrlBarony	3,344	4,125	99	7	9,917	10,974	20,891	2,344	2,531	2,461	7,336	1,039	749	1,788
Gorey IrlBarony	3,453	3,718	66	4	9,916	10,191	20,107	3,053	1,466	1,799	6,318	780	555	1,335
Scarawalsh IrlBarony	4,792	5,266	170	3	13,623	14,393	28,016	4,237	1,975	2,557	8,769	1,182	530	1,712
Shelburne IrlBarony	3,075	3,232	77	0	8,569	9,394	17,963	2,624	759	1,330	4,713	854	260	1,114
Shelmalier IrlBarony	3,109	3,332	89	1	8,634	9,275	17,909	3,946	1,492	2,121	7,559	788	300	1,088

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.