Abstract of Answers and Returns pursuant to Act for taking Account of Population of Ireland

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KILKENNY.] 
UNDER THE POPULATION ACT OF ireland:—1821. 
45 

OCCUPATIONS: SCHOOLS: N° of N° of N°of Total PUPILS: Persons chiefly 

Persons all other Number 

of 

OBSERVATIONS. 
chiefly Persons employed in Agri-

employed in Trades 

occupied and not 

Persons occupied. 

Males. 
Females. 
TOTAL. 
culture. 
Manu-

factures, or Handi-

comprised __-"""*———— iH t-_e tw© 

preceding 

214 

craft. 
Classes. 

449 202 80 282 (") In Rathpatrick Parish, there is a school of 92 143 

74 boys and 24 girls, of whom 20 are taught gratis, 108 28 87 223 — — "~ established about 20 years ago, by the gentlemen of 

the Parish. 
90 3 51 144 30 10 40 173 22 63 .258 
53 20 73 108 22 44 174 --— 

(*) Rossbercon Village is in the Parish of that 162 21 70 253 40 20 60 name. 
68 31 48 147 ---(w -) The Parish of Cluin is a]so called Clonameary. 

(*) There is a Village called Fiddown, in the Parish 97 11 44 152 

78 26 

of that name, containing 38 houses and 229 inhabi-tants; and also, the Villages of Templeorum and. 
215 21 58 294 104 Pilltown, the former containing 40 houses and 223 in-

habitants; and the latter, 114 houses and 590 inha-bitants. 
The Earl of Besborough supports a charity school of 32 boys and 8 girls in the Parish. 
C) The Parish of Whitechurch is also called Tom-

3,260 689 1,279 5,228 946 276 1,222 

plegall and Castlane, that of Owning is also called 476 257 349 1,082 224 79 303 Bewley. 
The former of them includes the ecHesiastical 

Parish of Tiberaghny, Tybrachny, or Tibroughny. 
In Whitechurch and Owning Parishes, there is a Lan-336 101 161 598 205 152 357 casterian school of 50 boys and 50 girls; the school-

house was built by Mrs. 
Cox. 
250 56 170 476 158 -158 C *) The Parish of Kilmacow includes the ecclesias-

tical Parish of Ullid or IUede. 
32 34 23 89 *-20 20 (*) The Villages of Kilmacow and Old Dangan are 

in Kilmacow Parish ; besides which, are the Villages 26 22 18 66 of Clonassey and Ballynabola, the former containing 

28 houses and 176 inhabitants; aud the latter, 21 450 45 167 662 24 22 46 houses and 133 inhabitants. 
63 62 55 180 145 62 207 (**) The Parish of Poleroan includes the ecclesias-

tical Parish of Ballytarsney. 
176 24 100 300 36 20 56 () Mountcoin Village is in Poleroan Parish; there 

178 

is one female in the Village upwards of 100 y eai s of age. 
213 37 155 405 132 46 

(**) The Parish of Rathkyran is also called Alish. 
171 61 96 328 74 37 111 (* 3) The Parish of Aglish includes the ecclesiastical 

Parish of Portnescully. 
(*) The Parish of Kilmaganny includes the eccle-siastical Parishes of Tulloghoght and Rosinany, orRo-

2,193 699 1,294 4,186 998 438 i,436 

sinara. 
There is an endowed school of 20 children, and 437 122 186 745 120 10 130 a school of 50 children, the master of which receives 

a salary from the Earl of Ormond. 
21 33 12 66 150 -150 (') Kilmaganny Village is in the Parish of that name. 
910 72 162 i,H4 306 -306 (') In Killemerry Parish, there is a school of 156 

children, on the Lancasterian system, under the pa-232 19 91 342 16 -16 tronage of Lord Ormond. 
In this Parish is Cotters 

Town or Village, containing 23 houses and 132 inha-100 20 58 178 24 16 40 bitants, who are miserably poor. 

(«) The Village of Keils, is in the Parish of that 170 51 120 34i 74 23 97 name. 
29 42 25 96 50 40 90 (') In Donnemagan Parish there is a Village of 

the same name, containing 21 houses and 90 inha-87 23 58 168 70 45 115 bitants. 

(*) The Town and Liberties of Callan constitute 148 70 85 303 50 20 70 Callan Parish. 
There is a charity school oi 154 boys 

in the Town, on the Lancasterian system, and a female 111 27 61 199 

647 

school of 28 children, who are taught straw-platting and making lace, supported by subscription. 
And 676 626 366 1,668 522 125 besides se> eral others, there is a parochial school of 

32 boys aud 18 girls. 
2,921 1,105 1,224 5.250 
1,382 279 1,661 

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