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]
Lecale IrlBarony Total	5,894	6,556	124	5	15,968	16,374	32,342	4,447	9,213	2,973	16,633	1,591	553	2,144
Kilmegan IrlPar	1,212	1,278	14	1	3,149	3,330	6,479	1,298	2,135	463	3,896	167	55	222
Down IrlPar	1,599	1,954	17	4	4,236	4,304	8,540	744	1,070	865	2,679	619	198	817
Bright IrlPar	365	371	17	0	1,032	1,069	2,101	359	747	181	1,287	40	20	60
Rathmullan IrlPar	490	546	2	0	1,224	1,312	2,536	328	1,107	226	1,661	0	0	0
Tyrella IrlPar	312	332	2	0	857	873	1,730	344	421	127	892	53	0	53
Ardglass IrlPar	196	201	18	0	480	496	976	83	370	160	613	15	15	30
Kilclief IrlPar	202	203	5	0	549	550	1,099	179	351	106	636	50	0	50
Ballyculter IrlPar	458	534	26	0	1,377	1,353	2,730	403	861	294	1,558	234	112	346
Dunsfort IrlPar	320	339	15	0	895	893	1,788	261	406	144	811	140	0	140
Saul IrlPar	406	416	17	1	1,169	1,167	2,336	337	980	187	1,504	123	79	202
Inch IrlPar	466	509	0	0	1,330	1,416	2,746	278	897	255	1,430	50	30	80
Ballee IrlPar	485	526	5	0	1,328	1,341	2,669	473	746	235	1,454	171	99	270

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