Vision of Ireland | 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	Offaly West	Show Kildare 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]
Offaly West IrlBarony Total	1,950	2,145	49	0	5,616	5,668	11,284	2,243	1,902	1,144	5,289	464	423	887
Nurney IrlPar	243	255	5	0	709	672	1,381	296	230	149	675	38	18	56
Fontstown IrlPar	181	201	0	0	495	498	993	157	92	68	317	146	47	193
Rathangan IrlPar	561	629	12	0	1,559	1,555	3,114	604	414	364	1,382	109	26	135
Ballysax IrlPar	186	209	4	0	583	520	1,103	185	114	201	500	13	11	24
Ballyshannon IrlPar	82	87	7	0	266	230	496	133	127	51	311	0	0	0
Kilrush IrlPar	82	111	2	0	309	275	584	104	123	85	312	14	16	30
Duneany IrlPar	54	58	2	0	174	161	335	79	81	19	179	0	0	0
Ballybrackan IrlPar	211	227	4	0	616	562	1,178	262	50	80	392	57	37	94
Kildangan IrlPar	26	27	0	0	77	71	148	35	50	15	100	0	0	0
Monasterevin IrlPar	720	787	13	0	1,977	2,211	4,188	668	639	389	1,696	231	303	534
Lackagh IrlPar	297	310	8	0	856	839	1,695	431	173	122	726	70	50	120
Harristown IrlPar	177	186	7	0	525	512	1,037	217	17	81	315	56	11	67

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