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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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
Males.
[12]
Females.
[13]
Total.
[14]
Ireland Dep Total   1,142,606 Show data context 1,312,032 Show data context 35,247 Show data context 1,350 Show data context 3,341,926 Show data context 3,459,901 Show data context 6,801,827 Show data context 1,138,069 Show data context 1,170,044 Show data context 528,702 Show data context 2,836,815 Show data context 265,606 Show data context 129,207 Show data context 394,813 Show data context
Connaught IProv Drill-down 197,408 Show data context 211,637 Show data context 5,393 Show data context 234 Show data context 553,948 Show data context 556,281 Show data context 1,110,229 Show data context 236,605 Show data context 224,165 Show data context 61,590 Show data context 522,360 Show data context 31,381 Show data context 15,105 Show data context 46,486 Show data context
Leinster IProv Drill-down 278,398 Show data context 352,320 Show data context 9,076 Show data context 479 Show data context 859,798 Show data context 897,694 Show data context 1,757,492 Show data context 252,608 Show data context 215,835 Show data context 173,215 Show data context 641,658 Show data context 75,510 Show data context 38,788 Show data context 114,298 Show data context
Munster IProv Drill-down 306,999 Show data context 357,366 Show data context 10,972 Show data context 398 Show data context 960,119 Show data context 975,493 Show data context 1,935,612 Show data context 320,063 Show data context 145,917 Show data context 150,079 Show data context 616,059 Show data context 89,225 Show data context 40,070 Show data context 129,295 Show data context
Ulster IProv Drill-down 359,801 Show data context 390,709 Show data context 9,806 Show data context 239 Show data context 968,061 Show data context 1,030,433 Show data context 1,998,494 Show data context 328,793 Show data context 584,127 Show data context 143,818 Show data context 1,056,738 Show data context 69,490 Show data context 35,244 Show data context 104,734 Show data context

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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.