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The Population of Ireland as taken in the Year 1788. 
Number of houfes, each | Number of houfes ei Namber . 
Numberef | paying amberel of foals u Names of the officers who took the population. OBSERVATIONS, 
COUNTIES. houfes in che! —— pearer Gere : 
year 1777. | One hearth) Pwo or more | houfes in 5 
hearths. 1788-1) 18 : 
————— | —_——__ (capes =e J 2 = e = - - + taken from abftraéts, 
Antrim) - = = 22184) aos19/ 3667) cea gg §MF- Mich. Monteith, fupervifor, and Meffrs. Sam. Read, E 
Aen Ghie oe 14000] 17386 1360 a1gt1] 1075] 6988 John Irwin and J. Beauchamp, hearth-money collectors. 
3 . 4 13279) = - = 2 > 2 a = -  |Nearly + from abftratts.. 
c ae 9521] 10129 937 3279 
Seria SF 27367] 28570] 3108 peal (oe : = i S : i. Ss 
z 1 = 5S e = e 6 a = 2 
Set es a i nate ae Te iia 490) 3r3y) Mr. Spence, hearth-money collector. - - - Nearly TEs: 
: fs i 245 = = 7 < of = = B S z al b 
Londonderry = =~ 10487) Mano 7 24 | ete aa Meffrs. William Spence and R. Rhumbold, hearth-moncy 
Aonsehat == = |) | oggolimmnb4gl 889) 19918, 994) 6467 )  collegtors. 
3 nen Mr, J. Richardfon, fupervifor, and N. Winchley- and 
Tyrone - = = - 17516] 20843) 2055 27742) *3) 7222 1), O'Brien, hearth-money colleétors. t 
Meffrs, P. Walth and P. Burchall, hearth-money col- 
{Callow - - = = 5696] 5594 Bar BSag i Ane eanaa } leétors. 
; is 25086, - | — - - - - : 
Dublin - - - 25256] 7797|  15054! 5 z Neaipete 
wy 2 ead eau a7a| — - - - ~ - - = ly = from abltraas, 
Kildare sicmy 2-8 cee 8325 pase 1307 pase Thomas Wray, Efg; infpe@tor-general, and P. Godfrey, v ° 
Kilkenny - = = 12680) 13409) +1478 17304 743) 5139 9 hearth-money colleétor. 
Ceeed) s . 88 1481 12881} 649] 3967 Mefirs. P. Walth and J. Mathews, hearth-money colle€tors. 
Ae - 2 ae Pid tre Go12} 400| 2348 Mr. Ch. Blunden, fupervifor. - - - t 
Louth - = - 7741) 7947 7 9926, — = - : = - c = ly 
z - - 5768) 16172 2161 22203, = = = - - - o + 
Qucnta 2 = = || A686) eyts| tans 77 | ; : ‘ . 4 7S | 4 Aveite om aueeae 
A p 14a = = m5 - 2 - - rom abftracts. 
ENE reosc mesa!) 1129 gael Mr. J; Saunders, fupervifor, and Re! Walfh andl Edw, 
Wexford -  - = 12938) 15508) 2063 seal) SEE CH) § Howlin, hearth-money colleétors. z 
iehlow! = Mes 3 7 5846 6 10718] = = 5 ns % x : 
wee ae) eae pe iene «,| §Tho. Wray, E(q; infpeétor-general, Mr. H. Bowen, fu- 
(ois 12564) 10906 601 14298) 715) 4584) 9 hervifor, and G. Smith, hearth-money colleétor. t 
Cork = = - =| 50003| 4810s) 8691 66175) - | — 4 es : : ee ae call 
Mr. S. Frizell, fupervifor, and Euf, M*Gellicuddy 
Kerry = = = = | 11673) 12453) 1038 Wee) GRIN SVE } hearth-money colleétor. "5| t 
| § Mr. W. Percy, fupervifor, and R. P. Davies, hearth- 
Limerick - - - 20252] ~ 19474 2384] 799] 3125) 26032, 1300) 7954) 2 money collector. t 
| Mr, W. Pi fupervifor, and P. Walfh, hearth- bi 
Tipperary - - - 19951] 21806 2396] 771] 3697) 28670} 986) 6194 ; Bae Said oe ae ¢ + Atrifle taken fromabitraas. 
- Tho. Wray, Efq; infpefor-gencral, and J. Bere, hearth-| 
Waterford - - —~ 9577) 1156) 2124] 536] ‘t400| 15126] 628 3917) { Tae SBE P' 6 > J zy 
% 1 5 Mr. J. Sullivan, fupervifor, and Wm, Templeton and 
Galway - = - 17230] 17508] 1438) 357 4187] 23490) 1146 6409) § rAbaeneres hexerhroneyicallettort 
Leitri 5 - 5 - 040) 5421 233) 128] 1219] 7ooL - - = 6 - - > |} taken from abftraéts. 
spies 5 f i Gen0l acosel aacal pare {Mr J+ Hennon, fupervifor, and J. Carr and J, Gildea, 
(Mayors= = 0) Boa nya Bost 782) 959 alla | 53] 7315 hearth-money colleétors. 
Rofcommon - - 8348 10066) 699 533] 3998) 15296, -— - 
Sligo - > - - 6150) 74or 674) 179 2496} 10750) 
Totals - - 448426] 450756 67225, 18824] 84679 621484. 14108] 87895] Nearly 64 to each houfe. 
in 1777. | in 1788 
“The number of houfes returned in 1785 
{the year before the new plan was ; 
formed) was - - - - | 397644] 533341 — | 23344|474222| In 1785 the new houfes were confounded with the others. 
Increale of 1785 over 1777 - - - 25096, . 
Tnereafe of 1788 over 1785 - - - 147162! 
Number of Houfes included in the above return of 1788:—Athlone, 676—Belfaft and fuburbs, 2641—Cork, 8703—Drogheda, 1731—Galway, 947—Limerick and fuburbs, 4566— 
Londonderry, 1642—Kilkenny, 2689—Diltriét of the Metropolis, 14,327— Waterford, 4097—Wesford, 1412—Newry, 1772—Sligo, 916—Youghall, 830—Kinfale, 1o79—Navan, 854. 
The return made to the Houfe of Commons of this fame year, 1788, was but 614,457, which falls fhort of this return by 7027 houfes. ‘Ihe caufe of this variation is, that we were 
obliged to take the greater part of the returns from the abftratts, the furvey-books not having come up, In a few inftances the abflraéts contained more than the furvey-books, as the 
cers included the fe houfes. Whereas the utmoft care has been taken to extract the wafte houfes in this return (except in the few inftances noticed in the column of obferyations) 
where we were {till obliged to make ufe of the*abftracs. But upon the whole the return from the furvey-books exceeds that from the abftratts by 7027 houfes ; the caufe whereof is, that 
the officers in their abftraéts fuppreffed feveral houfes which they had returned in their furvey-books (whiclj are fworn to) and kept the money to themfelves. ; 
The method in which the population has been taken is as follows :—I have felected the moft intelligent bfficers, and have requelted them to fubjoin to each houfe the number of fouls 
inhabiting the fame; but where they fhould not be able to obtain a clear and fatisfaétory account, to pals by fuch houfe without attempting to give any account whatever of the number of 
fouls, rather than give one that could not be thoroughly depended upon. Having the books before me, Ifirft find out the number of widows and paupers in the county ; fecondly, the number 
of new houfes; thirdly, the number of houles with more hearths than one to each ; fourthly, the number of houfes with a fingle hearth to each, which pay duty ; and when I haye fufficient materials 
T caufe a proportionate number of each fort to be extraéted, till I have the twentieth part of the houfes in the county. ‘Thus in the county of Wexford there are 2111 paupers and widows, fo 
1 take the firlt 106 houfes inhabited by perfons of that defeription which appear on the face of the books, with the number of fouls annexed to cach, 106 being as nearly the one-twentieth 
part of 2111 as 1 can go without a fradion: then I find the number of new houfes to be 766, fo I take the number of fouls annexed to the firft 38 new houfes; then I find the number of 
houfes having two hearths and upwards to be 2063, fo I take the number of fouls annexed to the firft 163 houfes in that defeription; laftly, I find the number of houfes having but one 
hearth each and paying duty to be 15,508, fo I take the number of fouls annexed to the firft 775 of fuch houfes, and’ I find the account to fland thus 
COUNTY OF WEXFORD. 
] Number of houfes 
‘Terai Number. [whacwol the population! Number of fouls 
as been taken. 
bees therein. ’ 
Poor - - ~ = - 21 106 549 About 5+ to each houfe, ‘ 
New - E - - : 766 38 164 FW Oe: 
Double hearths a - - = 2063 103 919 Nearly 9 to each. 
Single ditto ~ - = = = 08 775 5008 About 6% to each. 
Totals = - - - 20448 | 6640 | About 6 to each houfe. N. B. This is higher than the general average. Wexford is one 
of the moft induftrious counties in the kingdom. 
aie other counties where I had fufficient materials I proceeded in the fame manner; but where I have not been able to give the population of the twentieth part of the houfes of each 
ion, I haye given a fmaller number of houfes of each fort. ‘he foregoing ftatement of the county of Wexford proves that to neglect the taking a due proportion of eash would lead 
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to falfe conclufions. 
‘The number of houfes returned in the year 1788 is certainly far fort of the truth. In the thirteen counties marked with a 41 have fome grounds whereon I have computed the number 
of houles omitted ; to wit, the check-furveys made by fopervifors of certain parifhes in each walk, and returned upon oath. Whether the hearth-money collestors have been more or lefs fraudulent 
in the other parts of their walks than in the parifhes thus furveyed, muft be a matter of accident; but as thefe parifhes were chofen by myfelf, without any previous knowledge that there 
were more or lefs frauds committed in rhem than in other places, the probability is that the frauds committed in them have been pretty much upon an equality with thofe commitred in 
other parts of the fame walks collected by the fame officers. If the frauds committed through the thirteen counties be equal to thofe committed in the parifhes fo furveyed therein, then the 
number of houfes omitted in the faid thirteen counties amounts to about 24,800; and if any of the fuperyifors haye been guilty of collufion or negligence, the number of houfes omitted 
is probably greater than 24,800. - 
fo this number muft be added the houles omitted in feyeral of the other counties. The frauds committed in fome of thefe appear as great as in the other thirteen counties. My 
opinion, formed on a variety of circumftances, is that they amout to 20,000, But I can only give my opinion. i . - 
‘The wafte houfes, or thofe returned as fuch, are not included. Many of them, probably fome thoufands of them, were inhabited, The inhabitants frequently fhut their doors, and hide 
from the colleétor. He frequently returns houfes as wafte which have paid the duty. 2 . 
‘In the houfes the population whereof has been taken, no barrack, holpital, fehool-houfe or public building is included. 
Whether the other houfes in the kingdom contain in proportion an equal number of fouls with the 14,108 houles whereof the population has been taken, mult be a matter of conjecture. 
If they do, and if the number of houfes amounts to 650,000 (which I believe to be fort of the truth) then the number of fouls in the kingdom muft be computed at above 4,040,000, 
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