GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND

CENSUS OF POPULATION OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1937

COUNTY OF ARMAGH

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PREFACE.

... This volume has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 (1) of the Census Act fNorthern Ireland), 19:16, from the census returns made as at midnight of the 28th February-1st March, 1937. The statistics contained herein supersede those contained in the Preliminary Report published in July, 1937, and rnay be regarded as final. The census which was taken in 1937 was a special one in the sense that it was limited in scope and vvas taken during the interval between normal census years, thus bridging the gap between the 1926 census and the next full census. Certain questions usually found on census schedules, such as those regarding occupation and industry, were not asked, but a question as to usual residence -vvas included for the first time. The 1937 census publications will consist of :- 1. SEVEN CouNTY VoLUMES, each similar in design and scope. The smallest area for which statistics are given in the county volumes is the district electoral division, but statistics in respect of townlands, similar to those given in table 4, have been prepared in the Census Office and are available for reference upon application to the Registrar General. 2. GENERAL REPORT for the whole country, covering in more detail the statistics shown in the county volumes, and, in addition, containing tables on fertility. 3. SUPPLEMENT TO 1926 ToPOGRAPHICAL INDEX. This supplement will be: designed for use in conjunction with the 1926 topographical index in order to facilitate reference to the statistics given in the 1937 census reports. It will cover the topographical changes during the intercensal period. The net prices for the 1937 census publications -vvill be 2s. 6d. for each county volume, 5s. Od. for the general report and ls. Od. for the topographical index supplement. The volumes for Belfast County Borough and County Antrim have already been published. • The remaining county volumes will be published at intervals as completed, and the other two volumes as soon as possible thereafter. These publications will be obtainable directly from the Superintendent, H.M. Stationery Office, 80 Chichester Street, Belfast, or through any bookseller. The 1926 census publications are similar in arrangement to the 1937 series (see advertisement on back of cover), but they incorporate additional tables on occupations, industries, education, orphanhood, dependent children, infirmities, and nationality. In addition the 1926 county volumes contain population and housing figures for each townland and village. The Registrar General is empo,vered by Section 6 (2) of the Census Act (Nor­ thern Ireland), 1936, to prepare and supply from the census returns statistics other than those published in the census reports at the request and cost of any local authority or person. Any special demands for statistics more detailed than those published (either as regards subject matter or area) can thus, as far as office records permit, be satisfied. Requests for special compilation of census statistics should be addressed to the Registrar General, who will be pleased to advise and furnish an estimate of cost. MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, FERMANAGH HOUSE, 0RMEAU AVENUE, BELFAST. SEPTEMBER, 1938. lV

CONTENTS.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND DEFINITIONS : Page Area vi Population vi Administrative Divisions vi Houses vi Rooms vii Families vii Rateable Valuation vii Usual Residence .. viii Birthplaces viii Religions viii Numbering of Tables . viii Convention as to Dots (.) and Dashes (-) viii Correction of Census Data viii

PART I.-STATISTICAL NOTES.

AREA ix

POPULATION IX

Urban and Rural Districts X Towns other than Urban Districts xi Unions and Dispensary Districts XI County Electoral Divisions xi Parliamentary Constituencies xi Education Area xii

HOUSING-BUILDINGS, ROOMS, FAMILIES, Etc. xii Houses xii Persons per Inhabited House and Persons per Census Family xii Housing in Urban and Rural Districts xiii Overcrowding xiv Housing in Dispensary Districts XV

INSTITUTIONS, Etc. XV

USUAL RESIDENCE xvi

SEX, AGE, AND MARITAL CONDITION xvi

BIRTHPLACES XX RELIGIONS xxi v

PART II.-TABLES.

ABBREVIATIONS :-CO.-County; U.D.-Urban District; R.D.-Rural District; U.-Poor Law Union; D.-Dispensary District; C.E.D.-County Electoral Division; D.E.D.-District Electoral Division; Towns-Towns created under the Towns Improvement (I) Act, 1854, and clusters of 50 or more houses.

Area for which Table Subject of Table statistics are given Page I Area, Houses, and Population, 1937 . . . . Co. . . . . 1 2 Population, 1821-1937 ...... Co. . . .. 1 3 Population, 1926 and 1937, and Analysis of Intercensal Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 2 Changes

4 Area, Population, Houses, Accommodation, and Valuation Co., U.D's, R.D's, 3 D.E.D.'s .. 5 Population, Houses, and Accom11.1,odation . . . . Towns .. 5 6 Area, Population, Houses, Accommodation, and Valuation Co., U's, D's .. 5 7 Area, Population, Houses, Accommodation, and Valuation Co., C.E.D's .. 6 8 Private Houses and Population therein . . . . Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 7

9 Inhabited Private Houses, Rooms, and Families .. Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 8

10 Private Families : Size, Rooms Occupied, and Density of Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 10 Room Occupation

11 Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Houses: Class, Co., U.D's, R.D's •. 14 Number, Total Population, and (for Institutions} Number of Inmates

12 Population, Parliamentary Electors, and Members of Parlia­ Parliamentary 15 ment Constituencies

13 Adjustment of Enumerated Population to obtain Resident Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 15 Population

14 Ages (Individual Years), Sex, and Marital Condition . . Co. .. . . 16 15 Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, and Marital Condition .. Urban Aggregate 18 Rural Aggregate

16 Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, and Marital Condition . . Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 19

17 Population under 21 by Ages (Individual Years} and Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 21 Religion (Roman Catholic and Other Denominations) 18 Birthplaces ...... Co. .. . . 24 19 Persons born outside N orthem Ireland by Religion, Sex, Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 25 and Duration of Residence in N orthem Ireland

20 Religions ...... Co., U.D's, R.D's .. 27 Vi

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME.

AREA. The acreages given are as measured by the Ordnan~e. Sur':ey of 1899-1907 (foreshore being excluded), and relate to the several administrative areas as con­ stituted at the date of the 1937 census. ·The acreage covered by the larger rivers and lakes is not included in the body of tables 4, 6 and 7, but is given in footnotes thereto. POPULATION. The population comprises all persons, including Forces of the Crown, enume­ rated as at midnight of Sunday, 28th February-1st March, 1937. The population assigned to each area comprises all persons who were actually present within it, whether as residents or visitors, persons on board ship in port being included in the area adjacent to the port. In general these definitions apply to the population figures for previous census enumerations \Vhich have been included in some of the tables. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS. The County is divided into nine county districts (five urban and four rural), comprising 82 district electoral divisions, seven of which are coterminous with entire urban districts or wards thereof (see table 4). The district electoral division forms the unit for the purpose of poor law elections. Four poor la\v unions are contained within the County-one wholly and three partly; the remaining portions of the divided unions being situated in Antrim and Down Counties. The medical dispensary districts situated in the County number hventy (see table 6). Poor lavv unions and medical dispensary districts are, respectively, superintendent registrars' and registrars' districts for the regis­ tration of n1arriages, births and deaths. There are four parliamentary constituencies for elections to the Northern Ireland Parliament, and one for elections to the United I{ingdoln Parliament (see· table 12). ~ The County is divided into twenty county electoral divisions, which are the units for the purpose of County Council elections (see table 7). The County forms a single regional education area under the authority of the county council. The changes made in the constitution or boundaries of administrative divisions of the County during the last intercensal period are as follows:- (a) Wards in th~ Urban District of Portadown were abolished, and the three former district electoral divisions amalgamated into one district electoral division '(24th April, 1933) ; (b) Th~t part o~ t.he District Electo_ral Division of Derrymore formerly situated Within the Ballybot Dispensary District was transferred to. the Mullaghglass Dispensary District (1st April, 1936) ; (c) The. crec~.tion by the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redis-· tnbuhon of s.eats) . Act (Northern Ireland), 1929, of four parlia­ mentary constituencies for the purpose of elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. HOUSES. 1. .. The term '' House '' denotes (a) each ?tructure containin&" dwelling accommodation (except institutions) which stands alone or IS separated from another by a vertical parting: wall; Vll

(b) each institution (viz., hospital, sanatotium, nursing home, infirmary, workhouse, asylum, religious or charitable community, residenti~l school, barracks, or other premises under Naval, Military, Air Force, or Police discipline, prison or other place of detention), regardless of the number of buildings within its precincts ; (c) each vessel, caravan, tent, or other movable dwelling. 2. The term" Private House" denotes any" House" other than an insti­ tution, hotel, boarding house, premises occupied by a caretaker, vessel, movable dwelling, or barn, stable, or out-house occupied on census night. The term includf;s premises comprising a shop and dwelling, unless occupied by a caretaker. 3. The terms " Boarding House " and '' Lodging House " cover any habita­ tion described as such, and any private house containing three or more boarders or lodgers .. 4. The term '' Inhabited '' denotes actual residence of a person or persons on census night. "Uninhabited" houses, therefore, include those temporarily vacant through the absence of the usual occupiers as well as those without tenants. Enumerators were instructed to omit from their enumeration empty houses in such an advanced state of decay that there was little likelihood that they would again be made fit for habitation. ROOMS. l. The rooms enumerated are the usual living rooms, including bedrooms and kitchens, but excluding sculleries (i.e., rooms used only for washing, cleaning, or cooking), pantries, cloakrooms, landings, closets or bathrooms, or any ware­ house, office or shop rooms. 2. For the purpose of classifying families by rooms occupied (table 10), shared-room occupations-i.e., those in which two or more families have rooms in common-have been rounded up to the next integral number of rooms. Thus, three families occupying ll, 2!, and 2l rooms in a 6-roomed house would be shown as occupying 2, 3, and 3 rooms respectively. The extent of the rounding-up process may be ascertained in a general way by reference to table 9, in which the actual number of rooms is given. In cases of 1 room occupations, all persons living therein, whether related or not, have been enumerated as one census family. FAMILIES. The term '' Family '' denotes (a) The inhabitants of, each institution (see 1 (b) of " Houses" definition), hotel, boarding-house, lodging-hou~e, or ship. (b) Each person or group of persons occupying separately the whole, or part of, any dwelling other than as described at (a). " Private Family " n1eans a family enumerated in a " Private House " (see 2 of '' Houses '' definition). · It should be specially noted that a family or private family for census pur­ poses includes any group of persons, ·whether related or not, \vho live together in separate house or room accommodation. RATEABLE VALUATION. The figures shown are those for service of the year ended 31st March, 1937, and have been supplied by the Commissioner of Valuation. Rateable heredita­ ments include lands, buildings, tolls, railways, tramways, canals, fisheries, tur­ baries, mines, quarries, waterworks, telegraphs, telephones, and electricity, gas, and water mains. Subject to the provisions of the Local Government (Rating and Finance) Act (Northern Ireland), 1929, agricultural land and agricultural buildings are completely derated and industrial hereditaments and freight-transport heredita­ ments are partially derated, the consequent deficiency in the yield of rates being made good by contributions from the Government. viii

The figures in tables 4, 6 and 7 are the totals of the valuations of the rateable hereditaments in the various areas before reduction on account of derating, but exclude in certain cases the valuations of electricity, gas, and water mains, tele­ graphs, telephones, fisheries, ·waterworks, and tram·ways. The total of such excluded valuations for the County is given in a footnote to the tables. The total for the County of rateable valuations after reduction on account of derating is given on page x. USUAL RESIDENCE. The persons who have been regarded as having their usual residence in the area of enumeration (i.e., urban district or rural district) include:- (I) Those enumerated in their o\vn houses. (2) Persons having settled residence in private lodgings. (3) Resident domestic servants. (4) Scholars, students, etc., living during term time in residential schools, etc;. (5) Inmates of institutions when the nature of the institution suggested permanent residence. (6) Crews of vessels if usually living on shipboard. (7) Persons whose usual residence, althe>ugh not in the building in which enumerated, is still within the area of eJ?.umeration. All other persons have been treated as usually resident in urban or rural areas other than the area of enumeration, or in countries outside Northern Ireland, as stated on the census schedule. BIRTHPLACES. Persons whose birthplaces were not stated on the census schedule were assumed · to have been born in the county in which enumerated, except in cases of persons with foreign names, and persons stated to be visitors to the household. In these cases further enquiries were made.

RELIGIONS. The classification of religions includes a separate heading for each religion; the adherents of which number 10 or more (see table 20). The heading "Presby­ terian" includes those who call themselves by.· this name without qualification, together with those who describe themselves as members of the Church of Scotland. Other Presbyterian denominations are shown at the foot of table 20. Members of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church of 8cotlan¢l have been included under the heading " Church of Ireland." The latter group includes all persons returned as '' Church '' or '' Episcopalian.''

NUMBERING OF TABLES. Roman numerals are used in this volume for the tables in Part I and Arabic numerals for the tables in Part II.

CONVENTION AS TO DOTS (.) AND DASHES (-). Throughout this volume dots (.) are used in tabular matter to indicate "none," and dashes (-) are used to indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given. CORRECTION OF CENSUS DATA. Every effort has been made to eliminate, as far as practicable, errors and inaccuracies from the census data. The process of correction began with the enumerators, who received full instructions as to the action to be taken in cases of error or omission, and it was continued by a s'ystem of check and further enquiry where necessary applied at each stage of the office work. The process was com­ pleted by an intensive scrutiny and inter-comparison of. the tabulation sheets. This scrutiny and comparison revealed a certain number of incongruities, which, when material, were investigated and corrected· in the light of the facts disclosed. In a few cases trifling errors were adjusted arbitrarily. lX.

PART I.

STATISTICAL NOTES.

NoTES.-(1) The definitions, etc., contained in the preceding section apply equally to these notes and to the tables in Part II. _ (2) The descriptions of areas used in this voht1ne relate to the con- ditions which existed at the census date. In particular, the term Irish Free State has been employed in the tables, since the name Eire did not come into operation for that area until the 29th Decen~ber, 1937.

AREA. The area of Armagh County, exclusive of the larger rivers and lakes, is 489 square miles or 9.3 per cent. of the area of Northern Ireland. In 1899 the County lost over half a square mile to Down County (see note to table 2).

POPULATION. The total population enumerated in the County was 108,815, and has decreased by 1,255 or 1.1 per cent. since 1926. A decrease has been recorded at each census enumeration since 1841 when the population was more than double the present population. (Figures for census years 1821 onwards are shown in table 2).

TABLE I.

Net move- Population Excess of Intercensal mentout- *Intercensal at beginning Births Deaths Births over Variation in wards from Period of Period Registered Registered Deaths Population the County Col. (5)---= Col. (6)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

1891-1901 143,289 30,548 26,068 4,480 -17,897 22,377 (10 years) 1901-1911 125,392 27,893 23,970 3,923 - 5,101 9,024 (10 years) 1911-1926 120,291 36,502 31,150 5,352 -10,221 t 15,573 (15 years) 1926-1937 110,070 23,589 18,928 4,661 - 1,255 5,916 (11 years)

*The populations given relate to the County as constituted at the beginning of the intercensal period and the births and deaths to the County as constituted at the time of their registration. That portion of Newry Urban District situated in the County of Armagh was transferred to the County of Down in 1899. tincludilig the deaths of non-ci.vilians of the County of Armagh which occurred outside Northern Ireland. Comparable :figures of natural increase due to the excess of births over deaths,. in respect of the County as now constituted, are ·not available for periods prior to 1891, but it is evident that in each of the intercensal periods from 1841 to 1891~ as well as from 1891 to 1926, there was a net outward movement of such dimensions as not only to counterbalance the natural increase, but to cause a marked decrease in population. During the past eleven years the net outward movement was of smaller dimensions, and this, it is significant to note, has coincided with the reduc­ tion to negligible proportions of the emigration to non-European countries. X

TABLE II.

*POPULATION Variation in 11 Persons Urban Districts years, 1926-1937 per acre and in 1937 Rural Districts 1901 1911 1926 1937 Increase Increase or or Decrease Decrease per cent.

ARMAGH COUNTY 125,392 120,291 110,070 108,815 -1,255 - 1.1 0.3

Urban Districts Armagh .. 7,588 7,356 7,400 7,064 - 336 - 4.5 20.9 Keady .. 1,466 1,434 1,341 1,260 - 81 - 6.0 6.0 Lurgan .. 11,782 12,553 12,500 13,766 + 1,266 + 10.1 16.1 Portadown .. 10,092 11,727 11,991 12,440 + 449 + 3.7 16.3 Tanderagee .. 1,427 1,409 1,320 1,120 - 200 -15.2 1.6 Rural Districts

Armagh .. 37,802 35,319 31,648 30,370 -1,278 - 4.0 0.2 :Lurgan .. 17,578 15,761 13,870 14,843 + 973 + 7.0 0.4 Newry No.2 .. 32,836 30,391 26,336 24,569 -1,767 - 6.7 0.2 Tanderagee .. , 4,821 4,341 3,664 3,383 - 281 - 7.7 0.2

*The figures given relate to each area as constituted at the date of the 1937 Census.

Urban and Rural Districts.-The only county districts showing an increase in population during the past eleven years are Lurgan and Portadown Urban Districts and Lurgan Rural District. The total increase in these three districts is 2,688, leaving an aggregate decrease of 3,943 or 5t per cent. for the remainder ()f the County. The 1937 urban population constitutes 32.8 per cent. of the whole as compared with 31.4 per cent. in 1926, 28.7 per cent. in 1911, and 24.6 per cent. in 1901-the percentages quoted relating to urban areas as constituted at the date of each census. It will be noted that the greatest absolute and relative increase in population during the last intercensal period occurred in Lurgan Urban District, and the greatest absolute and relative decreases in Newry No. 2 Rural District and Tanderagee Urban District respectively. The persons per acre rates vary in the urban districts between 20.9 in Armagh and 1.6 in Tanderagee. These rates, however, should be used with reserve in ·measuring the density of population in urban areas, since the acreages of these areas. may include widely differing proportions of waste land, land under pasture, etc. In rural districts the rates vary between 0.4 and 0.2 persons per acre. Table 3 shows the extent to which each urban and rural district in the County has lost or gained by migration during the intercensal period. Table 4 provides more detailed information regarding urban and rural districts and their eonstituent district electoral divisions, including figures of rateable valuation. The rateable valuation of the County in 1937 was £532,928 before ~reduction on account of derating, and £234,937 after reduction on account of .derating. These figures compare with a rateable valuation of £445,778 in 1926, but it is to be noted that during the intercensal period, not only was a derating scheme introduced, but a general revaluation took place. Xl

Towns other than Urban Districts.-Table 5 deals ·with to\vns which may be defined as clusters of 50 or more houses \Vith no legally defined boundaries~ There are 15 of these towns, and of these Bessbrook has a population of over 2,000, and five others have a pqpulation of bet,veen 500 and 1,000 each. The total population of the 15 towns is 8,253. There are no to\vns created under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, in County Armagh.

Unions and Dispensary Districts.-Detailed figures for ·these areas are given in table 6. County Electoral Divisions.-Detailed figures for these, together with the reference numbers of the district electoral divisions comprised in each, are given in table 7. Parliamentary Constituencies .-A complete record of the parliamentary constituencies of the County for elections to l?oth the United Kingdom and N orthem Ireland Parliaments is set out in table 12. The number of electors as shown therein is in accordance with the register which came into force on. the 15th December, 1937. This register was compiled on the basis of the qualifying period of six months ending on 15th July, 1937, and therefore approximates in point of time to the census date. In general a person is entitled to be registered as a Northern Ireland parlia­ mentary elector if he or she is twenty-one or more years of age, and (a) has the requisite residence qualification of six months and (unless a native of Northern Ireland) has been resident in the United Kingdom for seven years prior to the qualifying date; or (b) has occupied for six months prior to the qualifying date business premises of at least £10 valuation ; or (c) is the wife or husband of a person entitled to be registered in respect of a business premises qualification. Graduates of full age form the electorate of the constituency of Queen's University, Belfast. The qualifications for voters at elections for the return of members to serve in the parliament at Westminster are identical with those set out above, except that the overriding provision as to residence in the United Kingdom does not apply. In considering the number of electors as shown on the register it should be noted that a person's name may appear on the register once only on a residence qualification, but any number of times on a business premises qualification, pro-. vided the residence and business premises are all situated in different constituencies. Thus a person having a business premises vote in each of two constituencies for Northern Ireland elections would only have one business premises vote for United Kingdom elections if both business premises were situated in the same United Kingdom constituency.

TABLE IV.*

Parliamentary Elec7" Electors with Parliamentary Constituencies Population aged tors with Residence Residence Quali:fica- for United Kingdom 21 and over Qualifications only tions per cent. of Elections (1937 Register) Population aged 21 and over (Persons) (Persons) (Persons)

ARMAGH PARLIAMENTARY COUNTY . . .. 67,828 68,889 101.6

*Table rii (Population in Dispensary Districts) is given for Belfast and Londonderry County Boroughs only. , xii Table IV shows the number of electors for the United Kingdom Parliament having residence qualifications only as a proportion of the total population aged twenty-one years and over as enumerated at the census. Education Area.-The Armagh County Council is the education authority for the entire County, which forms a single regional education area, and all fi~ures given in this volume for the County therefore apply equally to the Armagh Reg1onal Education Area.

HOUSING-BUILDINGS, ROOMS, FAMILIES, Etc. Houses.-The houses dealt with in tables V and VI comprise all buildings, including institutions, etc., which are normally used for dwelling purposes,· and, since nearly 99 per cent. of these are houses containing private dwellings, the comparisons afforded by the tables can be regarded as being broadly applicable to housing of private census families.

TABLE V.*

Total I Number Popula- HOUSES Average of Average Year tion less No. of Families Number of Inmates P-ersons in of Enumera- of per occupation Persons tion Institu- In- Unin- Inhabited of all per tions Total habited habited Building House Inhabited Family Houses

1851 193,830 37,240 35,070 2,141 29 5.53 37,198 5.21

1861 188,551 37,612 35,754 1,775 83 5.27 38,188 4.94

1871 177,349 36,0ey4 34,439 1,583 32 5.15 36,247 4.89

1881 160,927 34,813 32,211 2,575 27 5.00 33,417 4.82

1891 141,263 33,437 30,550 2,822 65 4.62 31,104 4.54

1901 123,608 31,296 28,026 3,211 59 4.41 28,287 4.37

1911 118,491 30,126 27,141 2,954 31 4.37 27,309 4.34

1926 108,72.6 27,703 25,532 2,072 99 4.26 25,695 4.23

1937 107,448 28,731 26,850 1,825 56 4.00 26,950 3.99 j

*The figures given rehte to the County as constituted at the date of each Census. That portion of New'"ry Urban District situated in the County of Armagh was transferred to the County of Down in 1899.

The intercensal increase of 1,028 houses is equivalent to an increase of nearly 4 per cent. as compared with a decrease in population during the eleven years of just over 1 per cent. The number of uninhabited houses has decreased since 1926, and is equivalent to 6.4 per cent. of all completed houses. This ratio is the lowest recorded since 1871. Persons per Inhabited· House and Persons per Census Family.-·As might have been expected, the average number of persons per house, which has been steadily declining ~rom 1851, shows a further decrease from 1926 to 1937. The size of the census family, which shows a corresponding decline, is now just under four persons per family. Although the population has decreased by over 1 per cent. since 1926, the number of census families has increased by nearly 5 per cent. • Xlll

Ratios for persons per house, persons per family, and persons per room in relation to inhabited private houses only, can readily be calculated for each county district from tables 8 and 10. A comparison of these ratios for 1926 and 1937 in respect of the County is as follows:- 1926 1937 Persons per Inhabited Private House 4.20 3.95 Persons per Private Family 4.17 3.93 Persons per Room in Private Houses 1.02 0.93

Housin~ in Urban and Rural Districts.-Tables 4, 8, 9, and 10 contain the detailed 1937 housing and accommodation figures for each urban and rural district, and table VI shows the changes in the numbers of houses in each district during the past eleven years.

TABLE VI.

HOUSES Variation in Total No. of Houses in 11 years, Urban and 1926 1937 1926-1937 Rural Districts Increase Increase In- Unin- Build- In- I Unin- Build- or or Total habited habited ing Total habited habited ing Decrease Decrease per cent.

.ARMAGH COUNTY 27,703 25,532 2,072 99 28,731 26,850 1,825 56 +1,028 + 3.7 .urban Districts I Armagh .. 1,602 1,520 78 4 1,631 1,549 79 3 I 29 + 1.8 Keady .. 346 329 16 1 352 325 27 -L 6 1.7 I + Lurgan .. 2,697 2,656 39 2 3,454 3,304 137 13 + 757 +28.1 Portadown 2,697 2,610 65 22 3,120 . 3,030 86 4 + 423 +15.7 Tanderagee 316 304 12 329 305 24 + 13 + 4.1 .Rural Districts Armagh .. 8,248 7,497 724 27 8,109 7,465 631 13 - 139 - 1.7 Lurgan .. 3,526 3,273 232 21 3,944 3,675 252 17 + 418 +11.9

Newry No.2 7,238 6,424 792 22 6,842 6,303' 533 6 -396 - 5.5

Tanderagee 1,033 919 -114 950 894 56 - 83 - 8.0

There has been an increase in the total number of houses in each urban district and in one rural district, the increases being substantial in Lurgan and Portadown Urban Districts and in Lurgan Rural District. The largest .decrease is in Newry No. 2 Rural District. Table VII has been prepared from tables 9 and 10, and shows broadly the distribution by size of private houses and the degree of subletting in the County. It also shows the distribution of private families according to the number of rooms occupied by them. Similar particulars in regard to each county dist1ict can readily be obtained from tables 9 and 10 in this volume and corresponding tables _:in the Armagh County Report for the 1926 census. xiv

TABLE VII.

1926 1937 I - Number Per cent. Percentage Number Per cent. Percentage of Total Subl~t of Total Sublet

Inhabited Private Houses with 1-3 rooms .. 10,380 41.2 0.1 9,214 34.6 0.1 4 and 5 rooms .. 10,663 42.3 1.0 13,017 48.9 0.4 6 or more rooms .. 4,157 16.5 0.9 4,398 16.5 0.7

Total .. 25,200 100.0 0.6 26,629 100.0 0.3

Private Families with 1-3 rooms .. 10,635 41.9 - 9,348 35.0 - 4 and 5 rooms .. 10,598 41.8 - 12,998 48.6 - 6 or more rooms .. 4,130 16.3 - 4,383 16.4 -

Total .. 25,363 100.0 - 26,729 100.0 -

For the County as a whole substantial increases are recorded in the proportion of 4 and 5 roomed houses and in the proportion of families in dwelling accommoda­ tion containing the same number of rooms. These increases are shared by all the county districts. The number of inhabited 1 to 3 roomed houses shows a marked decrease as compared with the number in 1926, particularly in rural districts. The proportion of private houses sublet in 1937 was 0.3 per cent., which rate is only one-half of the rate for 1926.

TABLE VIII.

Density of Room Occupation

Over 2 persons per room - 2 pe~sons Over4 4andover 3andover and less persons 3 persons 2 persons Total per room per room per room per room

{ Private Family Population .. 1,007 3,491 13,786 18,284 87,466 1926 Ratio per 1,000 of Total Private Family Population .. 10 33 I 130 173 827

{Private Family Population .. 617 2,178 11,385 14,180 90,945 1937 Ratio per 1,000 of Total Private Family Population .. 6 21 108 135 865 I

Overcrowding.-In order to determine the· measure of accommodation e?sential if _overcrowding is to be avoided, a knowledge of many factors such as size of family, number, ages, and sex of children, and number and size of rooms is necessary: Moreover, it is a matter of individual judgment as to what weight should be given to each factor. In dealing with the accommodation particulars XV

recorded at the censu~, the size of the census family has been expressed by the number of persons, w1thout regard to sex or age, and the rooms comprising the accommodation have been limited to the usual living rooms. The resulting rates of persons per room have been regarded as an approximate measure of density of room accommodation, and a rate of over 2 persons per room has been assumed to indicate overcrowding.

TABLE IX.

1937 1926

Population in Private Persons per Persons per 1,000 1,000 Urban and Rural Families living at density of living at density of living at Districts density of '2 persons Over2 2 persons Over2 over 2 and less persons and less persons persons per room per room per room per room per room

ARMAGH COUNTY .. 90,945 14,180 865 135 173 Urban Districts Armagh .. 5,580 678 892 108 158 Keady .. . . 1,030 158 867 133 159 Lurgan .. 12,138 1,211 909 91 122 Portadown .. . . ll,411 808 934 66 83 Tanderagee . . .. 993 120 892 108 134

R~wal Districts Am1agh .. . . 25,275 3,691 873 127 165 Lurgan .. . . 12,580 2,108 856 144 192 Newry No.2 .. . . 18,919 5,056 789 211 252 Tanderagee .. . . 3,019 350 896 104 110

Tables VIII and IX have been prepared from table 10. The first of these tables shows a marked general improvement in accommodation in the County as a whole, and table IX shows that all urban and rural districts share in this im­ provement. The actual amount of overcrowding in the various districts is shown by the population numbers and the relative degree of overcrowding is indicated · by the density rates in the category of ''over 2 persons per room.''

Housing in Dispensary Districts.-Table 6 contains detailed housing and accommodation figures for d_ispensary districts. It will be noted that an increase during the intercensal period of almost 1,600 in the total number of houses in that part of Lurgan Union situated within the County has been partially offset by decreases in the other Unions. Actually, decreases have been registered in 14 -of the 20 dispensary districts.

INSTITUTIONS, Etc. The population in each of the types of inhabited buildings, etc., other than private houses, is shown for each urban and rural district in table 11, together with the numbers of inmates of institutions. Table XI gives for the County these particulars in comparison with the corresponding 1926 figures. . XVI

TABLE XI.*

1926 1937

Class of Inhabited Number of Inmates Number of Inmates Building, etc. Inhabited Total only Inhabited Total only Buildings, Population (Classes Buildings, Population (Classes etc. 2-9) etc. 2-9)

l. Hotels and Boarding Houses .. . . 194 1,434 - 125 828 - 2. Poor Law Institutions 3 697 627 3 740 646 3. District Hospitals . . . 4. Institutions for Lunatics 2 660 568 3 714 622 5. Institutions for Cripples 6. Institutions for Blind 1 14 7 1 8 6 7. Institutions for Deaf and Dumb .. 8. Hospitals and Nursing Homes .. . . 4 117 81 3 92 65 9. Prisons .. . . 1 85 61 1 40 28 10 .. Shipping (Sea-going) 11. Shipping (Inland) .. 8 11 - 2 8 - 12. Other Premises .. 119 1,301 - 83 1,257 - 13. Vagrants . . .. 1 - 3 - All classes of Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Houses .. 332 4,320 1,344 221 3,690 1,367

The total nun1ber of hotels and boarding houses in the County has decreased by 36 per cent., and their population by 42 per cent. This decrease is no doubt> to some extent, due to the additional houses built since 1926, which must have absorbed many people hitherto living in boarding houses as \Veil as persons who previously occupied portions of houses.

USUAL RESIDENCE. The new enquiry at this census as to the "usual residence" of each indivi­ dual irrespective of the address at which he or she was enumerated has disclosed that only 1.-1 per cent. of the enumerated population of Armagh County was ;normally resident elsewhere than in the urban or rural district of enumeration> and over one quarter of these resided outside Northern Ireland. Detailed :figures are contained in table 13. This table shows the effect of an adjustment of the enumerated population for usual residence as between the urban or rural district of enumeration and other such areas in Northern Ireland. While this adjustment is comparatively insignificant, it may be noted that it would probably have been larger if the census had been taken some months later. Moreover, the 1937 population :figures adjusted for usual residence as at the end of February will provide better compar.isons with population :figures similarly adjusted at a future census (which may be taken at some other time of the year) than simple com­ parisons of populations as enumerated. In the absence of particulars of persons not enumerated in Northern Ireland, but usually resident in the Colinty, it is not possible to make a similar adjustment for usual residence as between areas in the County and places outside Northern Ireland. If, however, a census enumera­ tion were carried out on the same date throughout the British Isles 'it could be made to provide most of the particulars required to give effect to such an adjust­ ment. SEX, AGE, AND MARITAL CONDITION.· Table 14 shows the population of the County by single ages and quinquennial age groups for each sex and marital condition, and for convenience of reference corresponding 1926 figures, limited to certain age groups, are shown in table XII.

*Table X (Housing in Dispensary Districts) is given for Belfast and Londonderry County Boroughs only. xvii

TABLE XII.

Population, 1926

Age Males Females last Persons I Birthday I Widowed / \Vidowed Total Single Married and Total Single Married! and /*Divorced \*Divorced I I I I I 0-4 11,055 5,662 5,662 I • I 5,393 5,393 I i 5-9 10,193 5,180 5,180 i 5,013 5,013 1 10-14 10,672 5,267 5,267 I 5,405 5,405 1 . I 15-19 10,438 5,318 5,307 I 11 5,120 5,o52 1 66 1 2 20-24 8,700 4,172 3,853 311 1 8 4,528 3,748 I 771 I 9 25-34 14,809 6,786 I 4,181 2,5521 53 8,023 3,920 I 3,987 i 116 35-44 12,361 5,899 2,170 3,584 145 6,462 1,918 4,141 i 403 45-54 11,854 5,776 1,599 3,847 I 330 6,078 1,564 I 3,713 ! 801 55-64 9,042 4,459 1,129 2,859 471 4,583 1,201 I 2,3021 1,080 65-74 7,749 3,598 802 2,020 776 4,151 1,091 I 1,348 i 1,712 75 &over 3,197 1,492 258 605 629 1,705 \ 366 277 I 1,062 I I All Ages 110,070 53,609 35,408 I 15,789 2,412 56,461 34,671 16,605 1 5,185 I I I I *Including 1 male retun1,ed as divorced.

If tables XIII and XIV, which have been prepared from tables XII and 14~ are examined together, it will be seen that the decrease in the number of single persons is partly accounted for by the reduction in the number of children under fifteen years of age, and partly by the relatively high. rate of increase in the number of married persons. There is also a substantial decrease in the number of widowed and divorced females~

TABLE XIII.

Population, 1926 Population, 1937 Increase or Decrease per cent., 1926-1937 Marital Condition Males Females Males I Females Males Females

Single .. 35,408 34,671 34,833 32,192 - 1.6 - 7.2 Married .. 15,789 16,605 17,042 17,592 + 7~9 + 5.9 Widowed and Divorced 2,412 5,185 2,396 4,760 - 0.7 - 8.2 Total .. 53,609 56,461 54,271 54,544 + 1.2 - 3.4

TABLE XIV.

Increase or Decrease Population, i926 Population, 1937 per cent., 1926-1937 Age last Birthday Males Females Males Females Males Females 0-4 .. 5,662 5,393 4,916 4,845 - 13.. 2 - 10.2 5-14 .. 10,447 10,418 10,357 9,825 - 0.9 - 5.7 15-44 .. 22,175 24,133 23,262 23,587 + 4.9 - 2.3 45-64 .. 10,235 10,661 10,364 10,466 + 1.3 - 1.8 65 and over 5,090 5,856 5,372 5,821 + 5.5 - 0.6 All Ages .. 53,609 56,461 54,271 54,544 + 1.2 - 3.4 xviii

The tendency for the proportion of the population at the older ages to increase and the proportion at the young ages to decrease, which was evident in 1926, still continues, and the average age of the population has accordingly risen from 30.7 years in 1911 to 31.0 years in 1926 and 33.4 years :in 1937. · The tendency just referred to is illustrated in the following graph, which shows the trend of the population of the County as constituted at the d_ate of each census since 1841, and the trend of the population in five age groups since 1871.

COUNTY ARMAGH:- TOTAL- POPULATION IN FIVE AGE GROUPS

1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1926 1937 CENSUS YEAR

Table 16 shows the population of each urban and rural oistrict by sex, marital condition, and quinquennial groups of age. This .table has been prepared on lines similar to those adopted in England and Wales, and will facilitate the study of questions of fertility. It will be seen that the number of females exceeds the number of males in each urban district except Armagh, but only in one rural district, i.e., Lurgan. Table 17 shows for the County as a \Vhole, and also for each urban and rural district, the population under age tw~nty-one by sex and individual ages. The numbers are also divided between Roman Catholic and other denominations. A similar division by religions is particularly evident among children at the school ages, during which there is almost complete separatiqn between the two groups. This separation is one of a number of social differences between Roman Catholics and others, and these differences have a considerable statistical significance. For this reason, therefore, in this and certain of the following tables separate figures for Roman Catholics and others have been shown. xix

TABLE XV.

Persons Age last Percentage Birthday Roman Roman Other Catholic Catholic Denominations Total

0-4 .. 4,794 4,967 9,761 49.1 5-9 .. 4,684 5,034 9,718 48.2 10-14 .. 4,986 5,478 10,464 47.6 15-19 .. 4,477 5,029 9,506 47.1 Under 20 .. 18,941 20,508 39,449 48.0 20 and over .. 30,534 38,832 69,366 44.0

All Ages .. 49,475 59,340 108,815 45.5

Table XV has been prepared from table 17, and it vvill be seen that the per­ centage of Roman Catholics is greater in the younger age groups. This suggested the possibility of a higher fertility rate among Roman Catholics, and in order to pursue this question table XVI was prepared. The results disclosed by this table do not provide conclusive evidence on this question, but the table does sho\v that, taken together, the county districts with the highest proportion of Roman Catholic population have a some\vhat higher ratio of young children to married women than the remaining county districts.

TABLE XVI.

Number of Number of Roman Catholic Urban and Rural Married Females all children Col (3)+ proportion of Districts aged under enumerated at Col (2) population 45 years ages under 3 yrs. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

ARMAGH CouNTY .. 9,726 5,889 .605 .455 County Districts with p1'oportion of. Roman Catholic pop~tlation above the average for the Cownty. Keady U.D ... 120 78 .650 .815 Newry No.2 R.D ... 1,863 1,293 .694 .718 Armagh U.D ... 696 365 .524 .586 Total .. 2,679 1,736 .648 .693 County Districts with proportiO?t of Roman Catholic population below the average for the County. Armagh R.D ... 2,450 1,522 .621 .410 Lurgan U.D ... 1,467 879 .599 .399 Lurgan R.D ... 1,366 822 .602 .339 . Tanderagee U.D ... 106 49 .462 .296 Portadown U.D ... 1,384 734 .530 .240 Tanderagee R.D ... 274 147 .536 .115 Total .. 7,047 4,153 .589 .351 XX

Table XVII has also been prepared from table 17, and shows fo~ each urba?­ and rural district the numbers of children at ages 5 and under 15.years,Le., approxl­ mate school ages, by Roman Catholic and other denominat~ons. Of the urban districts Lurgan has the largest number, and Keady the h1ghest percentage of Roman Catholic children, while of the rural districts Newry No. 2 has both the largest number and the highest percentage.

TABLE XVII.

Children aged 5 and under 15 years Urban and R ura I Districts Roman Other Total Percentage Catbolic Denominations Roman Catholic

ARMAGH CouNTY .. 9,670 10,512 20,182 47.9 .urban Districts Armagh . . .. 826 528 1,354 61.0 Keady . . .. 199 40 239 83.3 Lurgan . . .. 1,211 1,413 2,624 46.2 Portadown .. 618 1,781 2,399 25.8 Tanderagee .. 76 113 189 40.2 Rural Districts Armagh . . .. 2,319 3,197 5,516 42.0 Lurgan . . .. 1,076 1,638 2,714 39.6 Newry No.2 .. 3,268 1,294 4,562 71.6 Tanderagee .. 77 508 585 13.2 I BIRTHPLACES. Table 18 shows, by sex, the numbers of persons born in each of the counties of Northern Ireland, other countries in the British Isles, overseas dominions, colonies, etc., foreign countries, and at sea. Of the total population of Arn1agh :County, 82 per cent. were born in the County, 11 per cent. in the remainder of Northern Ireland, and nearly 4! per cent. in the Irish Free State. Only 0.7 per cent. were born outside the British Isles, and over one third of these were born in British Dominions and Colonies. Persons born in foreign countries numbered 445, and 11 persons were born at sea.

TABLE XVIII.

Bilihplace

l Year of Northern Irish Free England Scotland Born at Born Total Enumeration Ireland State and Wales Sea Abroad Population (a) (b) 1861 182,524 6,087 779 457 - 239 190,086 1871 171,446 5,G39 1,161 565 20 429 179,260 1881 155,238 5,567 1,288 647 7 430 163,177 1891 134,961 5,773 1,292 797 5 461 143,289 1901 118,084 4,923 943 899 2 541 125,392 1911 ll2,051 5,102 1,255 1,280 1 602 120,291 1926 101,410 5,312 1,294 1,488 3 563 l10,070 1937 100,716 4,739 1,270 1,345 11 734 108,815 Proportion per cent. -

1861 96.02 3.20 0.41 0 .....?I -:t - 0.13 100 1871 95.64 3.15 0.65 0.31 0.01 0.24 100 1881 95.14 3.41 0.79 0.40 0.00 0.26 100 1891 94.19 4.03 0.90 0.56 0.00 0.32 100 1901 94.17 3.93 . 0.75 0.72 0.00 0.43 100 1911 93.15 4.24 1.04 1.07 0.00 0.50 100 1926 92.13 4.83 1.18 1.35 0.00 0.51 100 1937 92.56 4.35 1.17 1.24 0.01 0.67 100 (a) Persons born m the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands have been included under this heading. In 1937 they numbered 4 p~rsons born in the Isle of Man and 6 in the Channel Islands. . (b) ~11 £.gu~es relate to the County as constituted at the date of each Census. That portion of Newry Urban D1stnct s1tuate m the County of Armagh was transferred to the County of Down in 1899. - xxi

From table XVIII it ·will be seen that since 1861 there have been no marked variations in the proportions of the population born in the several parts of the Brit~sh Isles a?-d abroad. There vvas, ho\vever, a general tendency for the pro­ portions born 1n Northern Ireland to fall; and the proportions born in other parts of the British Isles and abroad to rise . .Table 19 deals with the numbers of persons in each county district born outs1de Northern Ireland and shows them under Roman Catholic and other de­ no.~ina!ions by sex and duration of residence in Northern Ireland. The irregul­ anties In the run of the figures as between males and females in some cases are no dou~t due to circumstances peculiar to particular districts. Districts with a high proportion of domestic servants, and those which include schools, institutions, etc., tor example, might be expected to show some exceptional features.

TABLE XIX.

Persons of other Number of persons born outside Roman Catholics denominations Duration of N orthem Ireland born outside born outside Residence in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland N orthem Ireland as a percentage as a percentage Roman Other of the total of the total Catholic Denominations Roman Catholic population of population other (years) denominations

0 and under 5 .. 717 727 1.4 1.2

5 /J 10 .. 534 481 1.1 0.8 "

10 JJ 20 .. 943 1,080 1.9 1.8 20 " 30 .. 698 618 1.4 1.1 30 " " 40 .. 579 441 1.2 0.7 " " 40 JJ 50 .. 293 291 0.6 0.5 50 and over" .. 236 246 0.5 0.4 Not Stated .. 2 Total Residents .. 4,000 3,886 8.1 6.5 Total Visitors .. 122 91 0.2 0.2

Total born outside Northern Ireland 4,122 3,977 8.3 6.7

Table XIX has been prepared from table 19 and shows under Roman Catholic and other denomination~ the numbers of persons wHo have come from other countries to reside in the County, and were still there on census day. It will be seen that the ratio of such persons to the total population of the same denomi­ nation for all periods of ·residence is higher for Roman Catholics than for persons of other denominations. The differences in the ratios, according to period of resid­ encP, however, are not such as to indicate that in recent years there has been any disproportionate influx of person?, either of Roman Catholic or other denomi­ nations, from other countries into the County, unless any such influx has been offset by a corresponding movement outwards from the County.

RELIGIONS. Table 20 shows the population by sex and religion in four main groups for each urban and rural district, and by sex and under twenty-three different descrip­ tions for the County as a whole. The highest proportions of Roman Catholics are to be found in Keady Urban District and Newry No. 2 Rural District. xxn

TABLE XX.

Roman tChurch of Other and Catholics Presbyterians Ireland Methodists not stated Denominations Year of *Total Per- Per- Per- Per- Per- Enumer- Popula- centage centage centage centage centage ation tion Number of Total Number of Total Number of Total Number of Total Number of Total Popula- Popula- Popula- Popula- Popula- tion tion tion tion tion

1861 190,086 92,760 48.8 30,746 16.2 58,735 30.9 6,086 3.2 1;759 0.9 1871 179,260 85,057 47.5 28,344 15.8 58,343 32.5 4,579 2.6 2,937 1.6 1881 163,177 75,709 46.4 26,077 16.0 53,390 32.7 4,884 3.0 3,117 1.9 1891 143,289 66,004 46.1 22,919 16.0 46,135 32.2 5,339 3.7 2,892 2.0 1901 125,392 56,652 45.2 20,097 16.0 40,922 32.6 5,098 4.1 2,G23 2.1 1911 120,291 54,526 45.3 18,969 15.8 39,037 5,056 4.2 2,703 2.2 1926 110,070 49,990 45.4 16,917 15.4 35,290 32.5132.1 4,878 4.4 2,995 2.7 1937 108,815 49,475 45.5 16,221 14.9 34,511 31.7 5,106 4.7 3,502 3.2

*The :figures given relate to the County as constituted at the date of each Census. That portion of Newry Urban District situated in the County of Armagh was transferred to the County of Down in 1899. tincluding Church of England and Episcopal Church of Scotland, numbering 826 and 2, respectively, in 1937. From table XX it will be seen that decreased numbers and percentages have been recorded for Presbyterians and Church of Ireland, and that the number of Roman Catholics also shows a small decrease, although their proportion is a little higher than in 1926. The only increases shown are for Methodists and persons of other denominations. From 1861 onwards the general tendency had been for the proportions of Roman Catholics and Presbyterians to decrease slightly and for those of Methodists and persons of other denominations to increase. The pro­ portion for Church of Ireland has only fluctuated between narrow limits during this period. COUNTY OF ARlVIAGH. 1

PART II.-TABLES.

TABLE 1.-Area, Houses, and Population, 1937. County. DEFINITIONS.-The terms "Area,"" Houses,"" Inhabited," and" Population" are defined on pages vi and vii.

Area in Statute Acres Houses Population

Water Land

Land on Total of Larger Under Woods Turf Occupied Shore of In- Unin- Build- Persons Males Females County Rivers, Other Crops and Bog Moun- byBuild- Lakes habited habited ing and Inland and Plant- and tain ings, and Lakes Water Pasture ations Marsh Roads, Rivers, etc. ------327,902 15,129 2,212 275,346 2,818 6,312 10,289 15,790 *6 26,850 1,825 56 108,815 54,271 54,544

* Land on shore of Newry River.

TABLE 2.-Population, 1821-1937. County. DEFINITIONS.-!. The term" Population" is defined oa page vi. The figures for 1821 and 1831 exclude members of H.M. Forces. 2. The figures given are for the County as constituted at the date of each Census. The boundaries of the County were altered by the transfer to the County of Down of that portion of Newry Urban District formerly situated in the County of Armagh, pursuant to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. 3. It will be noted that the last two intercensal periods cover fifteen years and eleven years respectively.

P\»pulation lntercensal Variation Date of Census Females per 1,000 Males Persons Males Females Number Per cent.

1821 .. .. 197,427 96,075 101,352 1,055 - - 1831 .. .. 220,134 107,521 112,613 1,047 +22,707 +11.5 1841, June 6-7 .. 233,024 114,523 118,501 1,035 +12,890 + 5.9 1851, March 30-31 .. 196,315 95,948 100,367 1,046 -36,709 -15.8 1861, April 7-8 .. 190,086 91,558 . 98,528 1,076 - 6,229 - 3.2 1871, April 2-3 .. 179,260 86,117 93,143 1,082 -10,826 - 5.7 1881, April 3-4 .. 163,177 77,683 85,494 1,101 -16,083 -9.0 143,289 68,370 74,919 1,096 -19,888 -12.2 1891, April 5-6 .. -,-12.5 1901, March 31-Aprill .. 125,392 59,773 65,619 1,098 -17,897 1911, April, 2-3 .. 120,291 58,578 61,713 1,054 - 5,101 -4.1 1926, April 18-19 .. 110,070 53,609 56,461 1,053 -10,221 - 8.5 1937, February 28-March 1 108,815 54,271 54,544 1,005 - 1,255 - 1.1 2 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 3.-Population, 1926 and 1937, and County, Urban Districts,. Analysis of lntercensal Changes. and Rural Districts. . lnfercensal Increase'(+) or Decrease (-) in Population

Populatio~1 Urban and Rural By Births and By Net Districts Total Deaths (Net) Migration

1926 1937 Population Per cent. Population Per cent. Population Per cent.

{Persons 110,070 108,815 -1,255 - 1.1 +4,661 + 4.2 -5,916 -5.3 ARMAGH COUNTY Males 53,609 54,271 + 662 + 1.2 +2,995 + 5.6 -2,333 -4.4 Females 56,461 54,544 -1,917 - 3.4 +1,666 + 3;0 -3,588 -6.4 {Persons 34,552 35,650 + 1,098 + 3.2 +3,062 + 8.9 -1,964 -5.7 All Urban Districts J\fales 15,962 16,879 + 917 + 5.7 +1,765 +11.0 - 848 -5.3 Females 18,590 18,771 + 181 + 1.0 +1,297 + 7.0 -1,116 -6.0 All Rural Districts {Persons 75,518 73,165 -2,353 -3.1 +1,599 + 2.1 -3,952 -5.2 Males 37,647 37,392 - 255 -0.7 +1,230 + 3.2 -1,485 -3.9 Females 37,871 35,773 -2,098 - 5.5" + 369 + 1.0 -2,467 -6.5 URBAN DISTRICTS Armagh .. .. 7,400 7,064 - 336 -4.5 + 560 + 7.6 - 896 -12.1 Keady .. ... 1,341 1,260 - 81 -6.0 + 81 + 6.0 - 162 -12.0 Lurgan .. .. 12,500 13,766 +1,266 +10.1 +1,209 + 9.6 + 57 + 0.5 Portadown .. .. 11,991 12,440 + 449 + 3.8 +1,148 + 9.6 - 699 -5.8 Tanderagee .. .. 1,320 1,120 - 200 .....:..15.2 + 64 + 4.8 - 264 -20.0 RURAL DISTRICTS Armagh .. .. 31,648 30,370 -1,278 -4.0 + 664 + 2.1 -1,942 -6.1 Lurgan I .. . . 13,870 14,843 T 973 + 7.0 + 612 + 4.4 + 361 + 2.6 Newry No.2 .. .. 26,336 24,569 -1,767 -6.7 + 329 + 1.2 -2,096 -7.9 Tanderagee .. .. 3,664 3,383 - 281 -7.7 - 6 -0.2 - .'275 -7.5 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 3

TABLE 4.-Area, Population, Houses, County, Urban Districts, Rural Districts, and Accommodation, and Valuation. District Electoral Divisions. DEFINITIONS-I. The terms'' Are::,'''' Pol?_ulation,'' ''Houses,'''' Inhabited,'''' Private Families,'''' Rooms,'' and'' Rateable Valuation'' are defined on pages v1 and vn. 2. The 1926 figures throughout are for the County and its administrative divisions as constituted at the date of the 1937 Census. (See note on Administrative Divisions, page ·v1). 3. Dots (.) indicate " none," and dashes (-) indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given.

Population Houses Accommodation

Urban Districts, 1937 1937 Popu­ Rural Districts, --~----~------~--•No. of lation tRateable and District *Area b.£; Pri- in Rooms Rooms Valuation Electoral Divisions 1926 1926 ::::: vate Pri­ Occu- per in 1937 Persons Males Females Total In- Unin- :§ Fami­ vate pied Person habited habited ·s lies Fami- ~ lies ------1-----1------1·---1------1--·1---·1------1---- Acres £ ARMAGH COUNTY 312,767 110,070 108,815 54,271 54,544 27,703 28,731 26,850 1,825 56 26,729 105,125 112,615 1.07 532,764

All Urban Districts . . 2,866 34,552 35,650 16,879 18,771 7,658 8,886 8,513 353 20 8,446 34,127 39,274 1 .15 141,675 All Rural Districts .. 309,901 75,518 73,165 37,392 35,773 20,045 19,845 18,337 1,472 36 18,283 70,998 73,341 1.03 391,089 l----l-----1------l---t---- URBAN DISTRICTS

Armagh Urban District 339 7,400 7,064 3,563 3,501 1,602 1,631 1,549 79 3 1,535 6,258 7,504 1 .20 28,994 1. ArmaghEastUr­ ban D.E.D. or Ward .. 93 1,878 1,728 872 856 345 382 360 20 2 351 1,314 2,079 1.58 10,569 2. Armagh North Urban D.E.D. or Ward .. 121 3,058 2,918 1,467 1,451 654 690 645 45 628 2,627 3,030 1.15 10,265 3. Armagh South Urban D.E.D. or ·ward .. 125 2,464 2,418 1,224 1,194 603 559 544 14 I 556 · '2,317 2,395 1.03 8,160 1---'---1------1!---1----11------1------·----

Keady Urban District 211 1,341 1,260 597 663 346 352 325 27 318 1,188 1,360 1.14 4,361 4. Keady Urban D.E.D. .. 211 1,341 1,260 597 663 346 352 325 27 318 1,188 1,360 1.14 4,361 -----t---·1------1·---1------'-1----1------1-----1----

Lurgan Urban District 854 12,500 13,766 6,404 7,362 2,697 3,454 3,304 137 13 3,281 13,349 14,985 1.12 47,859 5. Lurgan Urban D.E.D. 854 12,500 13,766 6,404 7,362 2,697 3,454 3,304 137 13 3,281 13,349 14,985 1.12 47,859

Portadown Urban District (a) .. 765. 11,991 12,440 5,796 6,644 2,697 3,120 3,030 86 4 3,009 12,219 14,009 1.15 55,007 6. Portadown Urban D.E.D. .. 765 11,991 12,440 5,796 6,644 2,697 3,120 3,030 86 4 3,009 12,219 14,009 1.15 55,007 1----1------1----1-..;,__-1----1------·----

Tanderagee Urban District 697 1,320 1,120 519 601 316 329 305 24 303 1,113 1,416 1 .27 5,.454 7. Tanderagee Urban D.E.D ... 697 1,320 1,120 519 601 316 329 305 24 303 1,113 1,416 1.27 5,454 1----·------1----·1---·l----1---- RURAL DISTRICTS Armagh Rural District 146,074 31,648 30,370 15,703 14,667 8,248 8,109 7,465 631 13 7,439 28,966 31,536 1.09 190,337 8. Aghory D.E.D. 4,557 971 936 483 453 274 261 252 8 1 252 936 1,136 1.21 6,911 9. Annaghmore , 2,923 1,017 931 497 434 275 263 229 32 2 230 931 934 1.00 4,498 10. Armabrague , 7,686 1,018 933 494 439 292 264 236 28 236 933 869 0.93 4,38J 11. Ballyards , 4,165 988 878 445 433 268 255 226 29 226 878 1,003 1.14 6,218 12. Ballymartrim , 4,710 745 755 416 339 202 191 176 15 174 703 768 1.09 6,402 13. Brootally , 6,088 838 846 454 392 229 217 200 17 200 846 834 0.99 7,123 14. Charlemon.t , 4,632 1,174 1,220 650 570 309 326 306 20 302 1,196 1,196 1.00 6,763 15. Clady , 6,568 1,026 882 467 415 331 294 263 31 263 882 967 1.10 5,526 16. Clay , 4,442 913 846 452 394 253 231 222 9 220 835 762 0.91 3,47.9 17. Corporation East D.E.D. 1,454 1,540 1,637 783 854 200 280 261 17 2 260 975 1,183 1.21 5,923 18. Corporation West D.E.D. 1,764 832 983 453 530 174 210 203 5 2 199 869 889 1.02 6,¥P 19. Crossmore , 5,070 1,065 868 466 402 262 250 230 20 230 868 1,011 1.16 6,070 20. Darkley , 2,423 942 894 447 447 249 240 224 16 228 894 877 0.98 3,521 21. Derrynoose , 6,006 1,040 891 478 413 310 279 258 21 258 891 985 1.11 4901 22. Drum , 6,391 972 904 476 428 282 249 228 21 229 904 964 1.07 6,608 23. Glenanne , 3,921 887 '853 442 411 242 251 225 26 225 853 1,008 1.18 ··5i594 24. Glenaul , 7,694 1,204 1,213 643 570 306 312 279 33 278 1,207 1,212 1.00 9,183 25. Grange , 4,500 1,097 1,237 631 606 267 275 255 18 2 254 1,023 1,057 1.03 7,038 26. Bamiltonsbawn , 5,215 852 804 429 375 257 231 218 13 219 804 918 1.14 6,658 27. HC¥>kley , 5,374 966 938 516 422 226 226 213 11 2 211 822 989 1.20 7,710 '28. Killeen , 6,402 908 911 481 430 265 246 226 20 226 909 990 1.09 7,198 29. KiUyman , 6,195 1,071 1,132 596 536 298 310 288 21 287 1,131 1,120 0.99 5,163 30. Kilmore 3,957 917 851 459 392 262 242 225 17 225 846 980 1.16 6,172

*Exclu!live of 15 129 acres under the larger rivers and lakes : and of 6 acres land on the shore of Newry River. ·t Exclu!ii:Ve of £i64, the valuation of telegraphs, telephones and gas mains. ~a) In 19_33 the wards were abolished, and the three district electoral divisions were amalgamated. 4 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 4-Area, Population, Houses, County, Urban Districts, Rural Districts, and Accommodation, and Valuation-continued. District Electoral Divisions.

Population Houses Accommodation

Urban Districts, 1937 1937 Popu­ Rural Districts, l------:---f No. of lation Rateable and District Area 0.0 Pri- in Rooms Rooms ValuatiM Electoral Divisions 1926 1926 Total c: vate Pri­ Occu- per in 1937 PersonJ Males Females In- Unin- ~ Fami­ vate pied Person habited habited ~ lie-: Fami- lies ------11----1---·:------·---1·------1·---1---- Armagh Rural District Acres continued- £ 31. Lisnadill D.E.D. 6,181 1,057 976 526 450 298 267 242 25 243 976 886 0.91 5,616 32. Loughgall , 5,334 1,185 1,081 572 509 300 302 270 32 267 1,070 1,224 1.14 8,491 33. Markethill , 3,267 1,260 1,287 628 659 313 349 321 28 318 1,253 1,554 1.24 6,578 34. Middletown ., 3,963 932 855 385 470 228 224 202 22 199 733 855 1.17 4,973 35. Milford 1,322 1,036 919 429 490 247 248 236 12 234 905 955 1.06 3,781 36. Richhill 3,007 969 921 471 450 270 257 242 15 242 919 1,113 1.21 5,383 37. Tullyroan 3,615 1,110 1,023 534 489 271 269 253 16 252 1,020 1,023 1.00 5,350 38. Tynan 7,248 1,116 965 500 465 288 290 256 33 252 954 1,274 1.34 10,678 1----1------1------1----t----- Lurgan Rural District 38,724 13,870 14,843 7,325 7,518 3,526 3,944 3,675 252 17 3,662 14,688 15,261 1.04 69,072 39. Breagh D.E.D. 4,756 1,071 1,008 501 507 295 280 256 17 7 255 1,001 1,047 1.05 6,808. 40. Brownlows Derry D.E.D. 3,957 1,329 1,374 701 673 348 336 312 24 312 1,371 1,235 0.90 of,879 41. Carrowbrack , 2,748 1,465 1,970 953 1,017 363 541 511 29 510 1,963 2,188 1.11 7,628 42. Cornakinnegar , 3,503 1,385 1,322 596 726 308 300 286 14 282 1,241 1,247 1.00 '7,375 43. Drumcree , 5,850 1,480 1,372 720 652 399 379 357 22 356 1,366 1,497 1.10 6,556 44. Kernan , 3,005 1,323 1,492 720 772 338 413 379 31 3 379 1,492 1,559 1.04 7,470 45. Lurgan Rural , 3,021 1,368 1,522 740 782 331 422 378 41 3 379 1,522 1,810 1.19 8,997 46. Montiaghs , 4,328 1,388 1,306 671 635 348 331 316 15 314 1,294 1,070 0.83 3,596 47. Portadown Rural D.E.D. 3,999 1,582 2,057 998 1,059 408 584 542 39 3 542 2,047 2,415 1.18 10,528 48. Tartaraghan , 3,557 1,479 1,420 725 695 388 358 338 20 333 1,391 1,193 0.86 4,235 1----1----l----~-1---·---1------,------1-----~----- Newry No. 2 Rural District .. 107,793 26,336 24,569 12,612 11,957 7,238 6,842 6,303 533 6 6,291 23,975 22,609 0.94 106,835 49. Ballybot D.E.D. 1,743 1,157 1,378 700 678 207 249 247 2 243 1,004 1,103 1.10 5,946 50. Ballymyre , 6,836 861 802 426 376 255 231 207 24 207 802 815 1.02 4,25g. 51. Belleek , 5,576 944 853 451 402 278 247 229 15 3 228 836 898 1.07 5,103. 52. Bessbrook North D.E.D. 211 1,110 1,092 507 585 249 248 246 2 247 1,080 910 0.84 1,580 53. Bessbrook South D.E.D. 357 920 912 405 507 212 211 209 1 204 835 882 1.06 4,186- 54. Camlough , 3,494 993 1,073 524 549 275 283 272 11 272 1,066 899 0.84 3,248 55. Camly ,, 5,287 886 793 427 366 266 232 213 19 213 793 659 0.83 2,842 56. Creggan , 4,673 875 703 369 334 254 214 191 23 191 703 591 0.84 -2;999- 57. Crossmaglen , 864 861 8q9 457 412 210 237 203 34 201 852 792 0.93 2,322 58. Cullaville , 3,886 934 791 424 367 251 231 210 20 210 777 573 0.74 2,586- ·59. Derrymore , 1,620 1,110 1,012 481 531 248 244 234 10 235 1,008 842 0.84 2,622 60. Darsy , 4,327 954 786 413 373 266 240 227 13 227 776 727 0.94 3,43(). 61. Drumba.nagher D.E.D. 5,433 888 799 414 385 258 216 213 3 214 799 935 1.17 7,361 62. Drumintee , 3,010 774 713 343 370 258 234 211 23 211 713 456 0.64 2,474 63. Fathom , 3,434 856 860 428 432 225 232 212 20 212 86Q 759 0.88 3,968 64. Forkill , 3,238 842 802 441 361 262 240 218 22 217 791 634 0.80 2,655- 65. Glasd.rumman, 4,468 928 777 422 355 266 236 210 26 210 777 630 0.81 2,397 66. Killeen , 3,211 807 684 352 332 238 225 201 24 201 684 634 0.93 2,566 67. Killevy , 4,087 788 776 409 367 212 224 207 17 207 776 590 0.76 2,698- 68. Latbirget , 4,382 807 677 356 321 231 203 183 20 183 677 541 0.80 2,442. 69. Mountnorris , 5,479 1,001 976 507 469 278 254 243 11 243 976 1,132 1.16 7,004- 70. Moybane , 3,531 834 719 394 325 261 226 206 20 206 719 552 0.77 2,152 71. Moyra Castle , 3,477 885 779 385 394 267 259 227 32 226 772 659 0.85 2,895- 72. Mullaghbane , 4,771 833 751 392 359 253 235 210 25 209 746 644 0.86 2,92g. 73, Mullaghglass , 2,300 971 917 437 480 213 217 210 7 211 906 924 1.02 4,555- 74. Newtownhamilton D.E.D. 2,787 878 896 449 447 330 275 247 27 246 884 I ,20 1 1.36 3,379' 75. Poyntzpass , 4~143 921 847 466 381 245 252 216 36 214 831 968 1.16 6,412 76. Tullyhappy , 5,198 833 737 391 346 223 201 190 11 192 737 804 1.09 5,424- 77. Tullyvallan , 5,970 885 795 442 353 247 246 211 35 211 795 855 1.08 4,401 1----t----1------1----1----1----1---+---- Tanderag•e Rural District 17,310 3,664 3,383 1,752 1,631 1,033 950 894 56 891 3,369 3,935 1.17 24,845 78. Ballyshoil D.E.D. 4,023 660 607 332 275 187 175 163 ·12 161 598 781 1.31 79. Laurelvale , 5,447 1,368 846 838 417 421 238 211 208 3 208 sas 867 1.03 3,104 80. Mullaghbrack, 4,419 721 656 338 318 212 201 tso­ 21 180 656 748 1.14 81. M ullahea.d , 5,278:. 3,091 694 629 333 296 192 181 '166 15 166 629 766 1.22 4,859 82.. Tanderagee Rural 4,409 743 653 332 321 204 182 177 .5 176 648 773 1.19 D.E.D. 6,157 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 5 TABLE 5.-Population, Houses, and Towns created under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854 Accommodation. marked "(T)," and towns comprising groups of 50 or more houses' but having no legally defined boundaries. ' DEFINITIONS.-!. Definitions of the t~rms "~.opulation," " Houses," " Inhabited," "Private Families" and "Rooms," are defined on pages v1 and vu. ' 2. Dots (.) indicate "none," and dashes (__:) indicate that inform:dion cannot or is not intended to be given

Population· Houses Accommodation

1937 1937 Popu- No of lation Rooms *Towns Rooms Private in Occu- per In- Unin- Build- Fami- Private pied Person 1926 Persons Males Females 1926 Total habited habited ing lies Fami- lies ------Annagh .. .. - 775 370 405 - 218 201 17 200 768 894 1.16 Bess brook .. .. 2,528 2,355 1,096 1,259 554 542 538 3 1 535 2,321 2,142 0.92 Clownagh .. . . - 214 91 123 - 58 56 2 56 214 336 1.57 Crossmaglen .. 655 626 322 304 158 181 149 32 147 609 600 0.99 Darkley . . .. 489 440 214 226 121 117 104 13 108 440 423 0.96 Dougher . . .. - 264 127 137 - 80 61 19 61 264 286 1.08 Drumadd . . .. - 188 92 96 - 50 50 49 181 170 0.94 Drumearn .. .. - 215 104 111 - 50 50 50 215 202 0.94 Laurelvale .. 447 420 201 219 130 114 112 2 112 420 471 1.12 Markethill .. .. 775 808 394 414 187 220 204 16 201 774 1,042 1.35 Middletown .. 175 177 91 86 55 53 48 5 46 161 249 1.55 Millford . . .. 673 585 262 323 155 156 152 4 151 581 585 1.01 N ewtownhamilton .. 569 569 266 303 219 186 165 20 1 164 557 865 1.55 Poyntzpass (a) .. 325 319 168 151 79 103 82 21 80 303 386 1.27 Richhill . . .. 351 298 148 150 101 98 89 9 88 296 401 1.35

* There ar~ no to~ created ~d~r the Towns I?ll?rovement (Ireland) Act, 18;,4,- m County Armagh. (a) A portion of this town, contrurung 47 persons, IS m Co. Down: Scarva (39) D. E. D. The figures in this table are in respect of the entire town.

TABLE 6.-Area, Population, Houses, County, Poor Law Unions (or Superintendent Registrars' Accommodation, and Valuation. Districts) and Dispensary {or Registrars') Districts. DEFINITIONS.-!. The terms "Area," "Population," "Houses," "Inhabited," "Private Families," "Rooms," and "Rateable Valuation" are defined on pages vi and vii. 2. Dots (.) indicate "none," and dashes (-) indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given.

Population Houses Accommodation

Poor Law Unions 1937 1937 Popu- and No. of lation Dispensary Pri- in Rooms Rooms tRateable Districts vate Pri- Occu- per Valuation *Area 1926 Persons Males Females 1926 Total In- Unin-IBuil Fami- vate pied Person in 1937 habited habited ding lies Fami- lies ------Acres £ ~RMAGH COUNTY 312,767 110,070 108,815 54,271 54,544 27,703 28,731 26,850 1,825 56 26,729 105,125 112,615 1.07 532,764 ------1. Armagh Union .. 146,624 40,389 38,694 19,863 18,831 10,196 10,092 9,339 737 16 9,292 36,412 40,400 1.11 223,692 Armagh District 13,754. 12,541 12,236 6,089 6,147 2,693 2,815 2,651 157 7 2,628 10,588 12,302 1.16 57,765 Blackwatertown , 16,826 3,475 3,670 1,924 1,746 882 913 840 71 2 834 3,426 3,465 1.01 22,984 Keady 35,938 7,944 ·7,217 3,750 3,467 2,177 2,038 1,880 158 1,877 7,134 7,359 1.03 36,238 Loughgali " 18,067 4,383 4,167 2,199 1,968 1,144 1,144 1,040 101 3 1,036 4,152 4,301 1.04 23,502 Markethill " 25,373 4,933 4,737 2,447 2,290 1,408 1,371 1,253 118 1,251 4,701 5,437 1.16 31,554 ·Rich Hill " 16,895 3,823 3,646 1,92~ 1,717 1,032 986 932 51 3 930 3,523 4,218 1.20 26,176 Tynan ",., 19,771 3,290 3,021 1,525 1,496 860 825 743 81 1 736 2,888 3,318 1.15 25,473 ------~. Banbridge Uni~ (Part of) (a) .. 18,007 4,984 4,503 2,271 2,232 1,349 1,279 1,199 80 1,194 4,482 5,351 1.19 ... 30,299 Tanderagee Dic;trict . 18,007 4,984 4,503 2,271 2,232 1,349 1,279 1,199 80 1,194 4,482 5,351 1.19 30,299 ------3. Lurgan Union (Part of) (b) .. 40,343 38,361 41,049 19,525 21,524 8,920 10,518 10,009 475 34 9,952 40,256 44,255 1.10 171,938 Lurgan No. 1 District 6,704 15,013 16,442 7,659 8,783 3,274 4,123 3,917 190 16 3,891 15,944 17,798 1.12 63,321 Lurgan No.2 7,762 2,406 2,400 1,227 1,173 620 594 564 30 562 2,385 2,045 0.86 8,412 Portadown ,," 11,714 16,912 18,407 8,693 9,714 3,944 4,784 4,577 196 11 4,555 18,169 20,675 1.14 82,606 l'artaraghan 14,163 4,030 3,800 1,946 1,854 1,082 1,017 951 59 7 944 3,758 3,737 0.99 17,599 " ------4. Newry Union (Part of) (c) .. 107,793 26,336 24,569 12,612 11,957 7,238 6,842 6,303 533 6 6,291 23,975 22,609 0.94 106,835 Ballybot District (d) 3,743 1,534 1,812 916 896 312 365 350 15 347 1,441 1,475 1.02 8,151 Crossmaglen 19,004 4,803 4,169 2,231 1,938 1,345 1,244 1,113 130 1 1,111 4,128 3,458 0.84 13,894 Forkill " 11,502 2,402 2,163 1,146 1,017 723 670 596 74 594 2,147 1,728 0.80 7,820 .Meigh " 13,853 3,284 2,999 1,520 1,479 984 941 852 89 851 2,992 2,402 0.80 10,744 Mountnorris " 17,872 2,822 2,651 1,397 1,254 814 736 682 51 3 681 2,634 2,842 1.08 16,239 Mullaghglass ::(d) 17,497 6,842 6,497 3,133 3,364 1,660 1,617 1,567 49 I 1,567 6.383 6,065 0.95 26,421 Newtownhamilton , 16,789 3,232 2,960 1,566 1,394 1,006 893 805 87 1 804 2,948 3,122 1.06 12,614 Poyntzpass 7,533 1,417 1,318 703 615 394 376 338 38 336 1,302 1,5.17 1.17 10,952 "

• Exclusive of 15,129 acres under the larger rivers and lakes: and of 6 acres land on the shore of Newry River. t Exclusive of £164, the valuation of telegraphs, telephones and gas mains. (a} The remainder of Banbridge Union is in County Down. (b The remainder of Lurgan Union is in the Counties of Antrim and Down. (c The remainder of Newry Union is in County Down. (d) The boundaries of Ballybot and Mullagbglass Districts were altered in 1936. 6 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 7.-Area, Population, Houses, County and County Electoral Divisions. Accommodation, and Valuation. l>EFINITIONS-1. Definitions of the terms "Area," "Population," "Houses,"" Inhabited,"" Private Families,"" Rooms," and "Rateable Valuation" will be found on pages vi and vii. 2. Dots(.) indicate" none," and dashes(-) indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given. 3. The table 4 reference numbers to the District Electoral Divisions comprised in each County Electoral Division are shown in parenthesis after the name of the latter.

Population Houses Accommodation

County Electoral 1937 1937 Popu- Divisions and No. of lation t Rateable District Electoral b.O Pri- in Rooms Rooms Valuation Division *Area 1926 1926 o;::: vate Pri- Occu- per in 1937 l ;EJ Reference Numbers Persons Males Females Total In- Unin- :-;::: Fami- vate pied Person habited habited :::s lies Fami- ~ lies ------Acres £ ARMAGH COUNTY 312,767 110,070 108,815 54,271 54,544 27,703 28,731 26,850 1,825 56 26,729 105,125 112,615 1.07 532,764 CO. ELE-CTORAL ------DIVISIONS 1~ ,Armagh (1~3) .. 339 7,400 7,064 3,563 3,501 1,602 1,631 1,549 79 3 1,535 6,258 7;504 1.20 28,994 2. Bessbrook (49, 52, 53, 59, 73) 6,231 5,268 5,311 2,530 2,781 1,129 1,169 1,146 22 1 ·1,140 4,833 4;661 0.96 18,889

3. Breagh (39, 41, 47) .. 11,503 4,118 5,035 2,452 2,583 1,066 1,405 1,309 85 11 1,307 5,011 5,650 1.13 24,964 4. Crossmaglen (56-58, 60, 65, 70) 21,749 5,386 4,645 2,479 2,166 1,508 1,384 1,247 136 1 1,245 4,604 3,865 0.84 15,886 5. Crossmore (11, 13, 19, 35) 16,645 3,927 3,511 1,794 1,717 1,006 970 892 78 890 3,497 3,~03 1.09 23,192 6. Drumcree (29, 43, 46, 48) .. 19,930 5,418 5,230 2,712 2,518 1,433 1,378 1,299 78 1 1,290 5,182 4,880 0.94 19,550 7. Forkill (51, 55, 64, 68, 72) 23,254 4,312 3,876 2,067 1,809 1,290 1,157 1,053 101 3 1,050 3,843 3,376 0.88 15,971 8. Hockley (17, 18, 27, 30) .. 12,549 4,255 4,409 2,211 2,198 862 958 902 50 6 895 3,512 4,041 1.15 26,252 9. Keady (4, 16, 21, 22, 34) 21,013 5,198 4,756 2,388 2,368 1,419 1,335 1,235 100 1,224 4,551 4,926 1.08 24,322 10. Kernan (40, 42, 44, 45) .. 13,486 5,405 5,710 2,757 2,953 1,325 1,471 1,355 110 6 1,352 5,626 5,851 1.04 29,721 11. Killevy {54, 62, 63, 66, 67' 71) .. .. 20,713 5,103 4,885 2,441 2,444 1,475 1,457 1,330 127 1,329 4,871 3,997 0.82 17,849 12. Loughgall (9, 14, 32, 37) .. 16,504 4,486 4,255 2,253 2,002 1,155 1,160 1,058 100 2 1,051 4,217 4,377 1.04 25,102 13. Lurgan (5) .. 854 12,500 13,766 6,404 7,362 2;697 3,454 3,304 137 13 3,281 13,349 14,985 1.12 47,859 14. Markethill (15, 23, 31, 33) .. 19,937 4,230 3,998 2,063 1,935 1,184 1,161 1,051 110 1,049 3,964 4,415 1.11 23,314 15. Newtownhamilton (10, 20, 50, 74, 77) 25,702 4,584 4,320 2,258 2,062 1,373 1,256 1,125 130 1 1,128 4,308 4,617 1.07 19,941 16. Portadown (6) .. . . 765 11,991 12,440 5,796 6,644 2;697 3,120 3,030 86 4 3,009 12,219 14,009 1.15 55,007 17. Poyntzpass (61, 69, 75, 76, 78) 24,276 4,303 3,966 2,110 1,856 1,191 1,098 1,025 73 1,024 3,941 4,620 1.17 31,648 18. Richhill (8, 26, 28, 36) .. 19,181 3,700 3,572 1,864 1,708 1,066 995 938 56 1 939 3,568 4,157 1.17

' 'W"'-~!! 1 8'-"'*ii''i 19. Tanderagee (7, 79-82) .. 13,984 4,324 3,896 1,939 1,957 1,162 1,104 1,036 68 1,033 3,884 4,570 1.18 24,852 20. Tynan (12, 24, 25, 38) .. 24,152 4,162 4,170 2,190 1,980 1,063 1,068 966 99 3 958 3,887 4,311 1.11 33,301

*Exclusive of 15,129 acres undru: thelargru:rivers and lakes: and of 6 acres land on the shore of Newry Rivru:. t Exclusive of £164 the valuation of telegraphs, telephones and gas mains. COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 7

TABLE 8.-Private Houses and County, Urban Districts, and Population therein. Rural Districts. ·. DEFINITION.-The terms "Private Houses" and" Inhabited" are defined on page vii.

Number of Private Houses Population in Private Houses URBAN AND RURAL DISTRICTS Completed Building Persons Males Females Inhabited Uninhabited

ARMAGH COUNTY 26,629 1,819 56 105,125 52,381 52,744 URBAN DISTRICTS Armagh . . .. 1,496 78 3 6,258 3,020 3,238 Keady .. .. 314 27 1,188 563 625 Lurgan .. .. 3,273 137 13 13,349 6,233 7,116 Portadown .. .. 2,998 86 4 12,219 5,694 6,525 Tanderagee . . .. 302 23 1,113 515 598 RURAL DISTRICTS Armagh . . .. 7,423 628 13 28,966 15,051 13,915 Lurgan .. .. 3,658 252 17 14,688 7,273 7,415 Newry No.2 .. .. 6,274 532 6 23,975 12,286 11,689 Tanderagee .. .. 891 56 3,369 1,746 1,623 8 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 9.-lnhabited Private Houses, County, Urban Districts, and Rooms, and Families. Rural Districts. DEFINITIONS-I. The terms "Private Houses," "Rooms," and "Private Families are defined on page vii. 2. Dots(.) indicate "none," and dashes(-} indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given.

Private Houses containing Total Urban Districts and Rural No. of Rooms Districts 1-3 4-5 6-8 9 or more Private Rooms Rooms Rooms Rooms Houses

ARMAGH COUNTY Private Houses- 1 Private Family per house .. 9,209 12,964 3,639 727 26,539 112,099 2 Private Families per House .. 5 50 18 9 82 463 3 or more Private Families per House 3 4' 1 8 53 Total . . .. 9,214 13,017 3,661 737 26,629 112,615 Percentage .. .. 34.6 48.9 13.7 2.8 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 9,219 13,073 3,689 748 26,729 -

Armagh Urban District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 254 768 347 92 1,461 7,311 2 Private Families per House .. 2 17 9 3 31 174 3 or more Private Families per House 3 1 4 19 Total . . .. 256 788 357 95 1,496 7,504 Percentage .. .. 17.1 52.7 23.9 6.3 100.0 - Private Families therein .. . . 258 811 368 98 1,535 -

Keady Urban District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 104 148 46 14 312 1,348 2 Private Families per House .. 1 1 4 3 or more Private Families per House 1 1 8 Total .. .. 104 149 47 14 314 1,360 Percentage .. .. 33.1 47.4 15.0 4.5 100.0 - Private Families therein .. . . 104 150 50 14 318 - - Lurgan Urban District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 515 2,376 295 79 3,265 14,937 2 Private Families per House .. 4 2 2 8 48 3 or more Private Families per House

Total .. .. 515 2,380 297 81 3,273 14,985 Percentage .. .. 15.7 72.7 9.2 2.4 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 515 2,384 299 83 3,281 -

Portadown Urban District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 345 2,070 499 74 2,988 13,953 2 Private Families per House .. 7 1 1 9 49 3 or more Private Families per House 1 1 7 Total .. .. 345 2,077 501 75 2,998 14,009 Percentage .. .. 11.5 69.3 16.7 2.5 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 345 2,084 504 76 3,009 - COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 9

TABLE 9.-lnhabited Private Houses, County, Urban Districts, and Rooms and Families-continued. Rural Districts.

Private Houses containing Total No. Urban Districts and Rural of Private Districts 1-3 4-5 6-8 9 or more Houses Rooms Rooms Rooms Rooms Rooms

Tanderagee Urban District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 76 145 65 15 301 1,408 2 Private Families per House .. 1 1 8 3 or more Private Families per House Total .. .. 76 145 66 15 302 1,416 Percentage .. .. 25.1 48.0 21.9 5.0 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 76 145 67 15 303 -

Armagh Rural District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 2,795 3,247 1,148 217 7,407 31,454 2 Private Families per House .. 1 11 3 1 16 82 3 or more Private Families per House Total .. .. 2,796 3,258 1,151 218 7,423 31,536 Percentage .. .. 37.7 43.9 15.5 2.9 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 2,797 3,269 1,154 219 7,439 -

Lurgan Rural District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 1,344 1,797 438 75 3,654 15,234 2 Private Families per House .. 2 1 1 4 27 3 or more Private Families per House Total .. .. 1,344 1,799 439 76 3,658 15,261 Percentage . . .. 36.? 49.2 12.0 2.1 100.0 - Private Families therein .. .. 1,344 1,801 440 77 3,662 -

Newry No. 2 Rural D.istrict Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 3,502 1,982 641 135 6,260 22,519 2 Private Families per House .. 2 8 1 1 12 71 3 or more Private Families per House 1 1 2 19

Total .. .. 3,504 1,990 643 137 6,274 22,609 Percentage .. .. 55.9 31.7 10.2 2.2 100.0 -

Private Families therein .. .. 3,506 1,998 647 140 6,291 -

Tanderagee Rural District Private Houses- 1 Private Family per House .. 274 431 160 26 891 3,935

2 Private Families per House .. 3 or more Private Families per House 3,935 Total .. .. 274 431 160 26 891 Percentage .. .. 30.7 48.4 18.0 2.9 100.0 - 891 Private Families therein .. .. 274 431 160 26 - 10 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 1 o.-Private Families : Size, Rooms Occupied, County, Urban Districts, and and Density of Room Occupation. Rural Districts. DEFINITIONS-1. The terms "Private Families" and "Rooms" are defined on page vii. . 2. Dots (.) indicate "none," and dashes (-) indicate that information cannot or 1s nt. tmtended to be given.

Number of Private families occupying the Private Rooms Population at following Number of Rooms families Occupied following Densities

Number of Over 4 4 and 3 and 2 per- Persons in Per per- overS over2 sons family, etc. 1 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9 lOand No. % Popu- No. per- sons per- per- and over lation son per sons sons less room per per per room room room ------ARMAGH COUNTY 1 .. 170 919 757 712 240 174 43 6 3,021 11.3 8,021 9,850 3.26 3,021 2 .. 75 894 1,235 1,554 822 513 147 54 5,294 19.8 10,588 21,022 1.99 10,588 3 .. 33 536 1,045 1,583 922 571 162 83 4,935 18.5 14,805 21,061 1.42 99 14,706 4 .. 10 411 868 1,427 832 529 138 95 4,310 16.1 17,240 18,932 1.10 40 17,200 5 .. 6 254 648 1,017 668 443 145 ..(32 3,243 12.1 16,215 14,585 0.90 30 1,270 14,915 6 .. 5 161 432 799 455 311 109 56 2,328 8.7 13,968 10,664 0.76 30 966 12,972 7 .. 2 100 317 498 308 206 69 34 1,534 5.7 10,738 6,993 0.65 14 700 2,219 7,805 8 .. 1 47 187 332 201 151 36 16 971 3.6 7,768 4,429 0.57 8 3.76 1,496 5,888 9 .. 39 97 194 103 so 18 17 548 2.1 4,932 2,527 0.51 351 2,619 1,962 10 .. 10 53 117 73 43 8 5 309 1.2 3,090 1,411 0.46 100 530 1,170 1,290 11 .. 4 20 51 25 15 6 5 126 0.5 1,386 617 0.45 44 220 836 286 12 .. 1 9 36 11 11 4 2 74 0.3 888 351 0.40 12 108 564 204 13 .. 9 3 6 2 2 22 0.1 286 135 0.47 117 104 65 14 .. 2 5 3 1 1 12 o.o 168 65 0.39 28 70 42 28 15 and over 1 1 2 o.o 32 13 0.41 17 15 ------Total } Private No. 302 3,376 5,670 8,334 4,664 3,056 889 438 26,729 ------Families % 1.1 12.6 21.2 31.2 17.5 ·11.4 3.3 1.7 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 541 9,778 21,140 34,394 19,932 13,327 3,936 2,077 - - 105,125 - 617 2,178 11,385 90,945 Rooms occupied 302 6,752 17,010 33,336 23,320 19,373 7,404 5,158 - - - 112,655 1.07 - - - -

Armagh Urban District 1 .. 6 33 16 47 16 15 11 I 145 9.4 145 582 4.01 145 2 .. 4 18 40 92 39 61 16 4· 274 17.9 548 1,298 2.37 548 3 .. 3 15 44 95 53 51 21 16 298 19.4 894 1,481 1.66 9 885 4 .. 3 28 78 57 47 17 11 241 15.7 964 1,252 1.30 964 5 .. 5 33 56 34 46 25 14 213 13.9 1,065 1,156 1.09 25 1,040 6 .. 3 27 56 28 29 9 2 154 10.0 924 723 0.78 18 906 7 .. 1 15 35 21 15 4 3 ~4 6.1 658 456 0.69 7 105 546 8 .. 1 10 19 13 10 3 1 57 3.7 456 272 0.60 8 80 368 9 .. 4 10 3 5 1 23 1.5 207 126 0.61 126 81 10 .. 2 7 2 1 1 13 0.9 130 58 0.45 20 70 40 11 .. 9 2 2 1 14 0.9 154 66 0.43 121 33 12 .. 1 2 1 1 .. 1 6 0.4 72 34 0.47 12 36 24 13 .. 1 1 0.1 13 5 0.38 13 14 .. 1 1 2 0.1 28 10 0.36 14 14 15 and over .. ------Total } -- Private No. 13 79 220 507 270 284 108 54 1,535 - Families 0/ 0.9 ------/0 5.2 14.3 33.0 17.6 18.5 7.0 3.5 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 23 184 920 2,138 1,164 1,170 426 233 - - 6,258 - - 61 617 5,580 Rooms occupied 13 158 660 2,028 1,350 1,788 903 619 - - - 7,519 1.20 - - -

Keady Urban District 1 .. 1 21 11 11 4 1 49 15.4 49 149 3.04 49 2 .. 11 14 19 13 8 1 1 67 21.1 134 274 2.04 134 3 .. 8 9 22 6 4 6 2 57 17.9 171 258 1.51 171 4 .. 6 7 16 7 13 1 2 52 16.4 208 244 1.17 208 5 .. 2 5 8 8 5 2 1 31 9.7 155 152 0.98 10 145 6 .. 3 2 7 2 4 1 19 6.0 114 83 0.73 I 7 ... 18 96 .. 1 4 8 3 1 1 18 5.7 126 76 0.60 7 8 1 2B 91 .. 1 2 3 1 8 2.5 64 35 0.55 8 8 9 .. 1 2 48 2 2 1 1 9 2.8 81 44 0.54 9 36 36 10 .. 2 1 3 0.9 30 16 0.53 11 30 .. 2 1 1 4 1.3 44 25 0.57 22 22 12 .. 1 1 0.3 12 4 0.33 13 .. 12 14 .. 15 and over '. ------1------Total } -- Private No. 1 54 55 98 50 38 14 8 318 ------Families % 0.3 17.0 17.3 30.8 15.7 12.0 4.4 2.5 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 1 143 185 385 211 165 57 41 - - 1,188 - - 9 15 134 1,030 Rooms occupied 1 108 165 392 250 243 118 83 - - - 1,360 1.14 - - - - COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 11

TABLE 10.-Private F~milies: Size, Rooms Occupied, County, Urban Districts, and and Densaty of Room Occupation-continued. Rural Districts .

Number of Private Families occupying the Private Rooms Population at following Number of Rooms Families Occupied following Densities

~ Number of Over4 4 and 3and 2 per- Persons in Per per- over3 over2 sons Family, etc. 1 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9 10 and No. % Popu- No. per- sons per- per- and over lation son per sons sons less room per per per room room room ------1------. Lurgan Urban District 1 .. 2 20 64 137 46 10 3 282 8.6 282 1,100 3.90 282 .. 1 18 89 236 213 46 17 11 631 19.2 1,262 2,872 2.28 1,262 2 .6 3 .. 2 81 224 227 44 13 597 18.2 1,791 2,738 1.52 1,791 4 .. 3 85 195 240 56 9 11 599 18.3 2,396 2,799 1.17 2,396 5 .. 4 50 138 172 40 4 6 414 12.6 2,070 1,934 0.93 20 2,050 6 .. 1 35 111 96 32 7 6 288 8.8 1,728 1,369 0.79 6 1,722 7 .. 6 29 71 62 8 4 5 185 5.6 1,295 841 0.65 42 203 1,050 8 .. . ~ 14 51 55 14 3 1 138 4.2 1,104 648 0.59 112 992 9 .. 1 11 33 30 5 1 2 83 2.5 747 382 0.51 9 396 342 10 .. 5 17 15 7 2 46 1.4 460 223 0.48 50 170 240 11 .. 1 3 3 1 8 0.3 88 36 0.41 11 66 11 12 .. 3 2 5 0.2 60 22 0.37 60 13 .. 2 1 1 4 0.1 52 19 0.37 26 26 14 .. 1 1 o.o 14 6 0.43 14 15 and over ------1------Total } I Private No. 3 55 464 1,221 1,162 265 61 50 3,281 ------Families % 0.1 1.7 14.1 37.2 35'.4 8.1 1.9 1.5 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 4 151 1,760 4,884 4,913 1,171 235 231 - - I3,349 - - 9 129 1,073 12,I38 14,989 1.12 Rooms occup~ed 3 110 1,392 4,884 5,810 1,684 517 589 ------I Portadown Urban District 14.02 I 1 .. 6 28 40 IOO 29 ! 32 2 2 239 I1 7.9 239 960 239 2 .. 2 22 52 239 I30 7:; 10 4 532 117.7 1,064 2,393 2.25 1,964 20 58 262 159 80 I3 7 599 19.9 1,797 2,740 1.52 1,797 3 .. 1.20 2,172 4 .. 7 46 244 132 82 18 14 543 18.0 2,172 2,608 4 34 176 105 77 19 3 418 13.9 2,090 2,014 0.96 20 2,070 5 .. I,385 0.82 1,656 6 .. 4 14 120 84 39 9 10 280 9.3 I,680 24 .. 1 6 84 58 29 6 2 186 6.2 1,302 903 0.69 7 42 1,253 7 508 0.60 72 768 8 .. 9 42 27 23 2 2 I05 3.$ I 840 I 2 I 35 14 4 3 I 60 2.0 540 280 0.52 I8 324 I98 9 .. 0.47 20 140 160 10 .. 2 14 11 4 1 32 1.1 320 150 2 2 2 1 I 8 1 0.3 s3· 4I 0.47 22 44 22 11 .. 22 0.37 48 I2 I2 .. 4 I 0.2 60 .. 1 ~ l o.o 13 4 0.31 13 13 14 4 0.29 14 14 .. 1 1 l 0.0 I5 and over . I . ------·---~---- r--~--~-- -- Total } --I - - Private .· No. 8 88 264 1,324 751 445 83 46 3,0091 - - 2.9 8.8 44.0 25.0 14.8 2.8 1.5 - ,100.0 - --=-1--=- - - - Families % 0.2 -~- Population in 18 76 714 11,411 Private Families IO 229 921 5,416 3,203 1,85I 377 212 - - 112,219

Rooms occupied 8 176 792 5,296 3,75& 2,778 692 515 - - 14.012 t 1~5 - - - -

I

Tanderagee Urban District 91 3.75 40 I .. 2 13 2 9 4 1 40 13.2 40 150 10 24 I3 11 7 73 24.1 I46 336 2.30 146 2 .. 8 144 4 8 17 3 12 4 48 15.9 144 226 1.57 . 3 .. 1.23 4 188 1 5 4 15 10 5 7 1 48 15.9 192 236 . 4 .. 10.9 I65 158 0.96 20 145 5 .. 4 4 12 5 5 2 1 33 6 5 8 4 I 32 10.5 I92 169 0.88 ~ 12 180 6 .. 2 6 7 91 1 4 4 3 2 14 4.6 98 75 0.77 7 .. 0.50 8 8 40 1 1 4 1 7 2.3 56 28 8 .. 3 1.0 27 I3 0.48 18 9 9 2 1 .. 1 3 1.0 30 I6 0.53 20 10 10 .. 2 11 I 1 0.3 11 4 0.36 11 .. 0.3 12 5 0.42 12 I2 .. 1 I 13 .. . 14 . . 15 and over ---- Total } - - - No. 3 37 36 96 51 49 28 3 303 - - - - - __,. Private 100.0 - - - - - Families % 1.0 12.2 11.9 31.7 16.8 16.2 9.2 1.0 - -

Population in 1,113 . 12 108 993 Private Families 6 101 133 373 188 I84 113 15 - - - - I,416 1.27 - - - Rooms occupied 3 74 108 384 255 3I5 236 4I - - - - 12 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 10.-Private families : Size, Rooms Occupied, County, Urban Districts, and and Density of Room Occupation-contin·ued. Rural Districts.

Number of Private Families occupying the Private Rooms Population at following Number of Rooms families Occupied following Densities

Number of • Over4 4 and 3 and 2 per- Persons in Per per- overS over2 sons Family, etc. 1 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9 10 and No. % Popu- No. per- sons per- per- and over lation son per sons sons less room per per per room room room ------Armagh Rural District 1 .. 41 297 263 198 57 55 16 927 12.4 927 2,983 3.22 927 2 .. 8 235 441 396 193 151 55 14 1,493 20.1 2,986 5,942 1.99 2,986 3 .. 113 361 414 203 160 51 28 1,330 17.9 3,990 5,745 1.44 3,990 4 .. 3 107 266 392 146 161 37 25 1,137 15.3 4,548 4,961 1.09 12 4,536 5 .. 1 61 219 292 142 144 44 16 919 12.3 4,595 4,121 0.90 5 305 4,285 6 .. 41 124 227 104 98 29 18 641 8.6 3,846 3,001 0.78 246 3,600 7 .. 24 101 130 68 70 26 13 432 5.8 3,024 2,029 0.67 168 707 2,149 8 .. 8 49 88 40 50 17 7 259 3.5 2,072 1,254 0.,61 64 392 1,616 9 .. 5 26 49 25 31 6 4 146 2.0 1,314 704 0.54 45 675 594 10 .. 2 12 40 15 13 3 2 87 1.2 870 418 0.48 20 120 400 330 11 .. 1 6 17 5 6 3 2 40 0.5 440 222 0.50 11 66 242 121 12 .. 2 8 3 5 1 19 0.3 228 91 0.40 24 132 72 13 .. 1 1 1 1 4 0.1 52 34 0.65 13 13 26 14 .. 1 1 1 3 o.o 42 24 0.57 14 28 15 and over 1 1 2 o.o 32 13 0.41 17 15 ------1------Total } Private No. 53 894 1,871 2,252 1,002 945 291 131 7,439 ------Families % 0.7 12.0 25.1 30.3 13.5 12.7 3.9 1.8 - 100.0 ------Population in 74 2,393 6,688 9,373 4,249 4,227 1,310. 652 - - 28,966 - - 95 484 3,112 25,275 Private Families Rooms occupied 53 1,788 5,613 9,008 5,010 6,036 2,415 1,619 - - - 31,542 1.09 - - - -

Lurgan Rural District 1 .. 12 95 148 61 29 14 359 9.8 359 1,125 3.13 359 2 .. 8 99 193 238 114 58 14 8 732 20.0 1,464 2,889 1.97 1,464 3 .. 2 54 163 226 146 75 23 8 697 19.0 2,091 2,974 1.42 6 2,085 4 .. 2 47 152 196 117 63 16 9 602 16.4 2,408 2,567 1.07 8 2,400 5 .. 24 95 126 111 42 18 9 425 11.6 2,125 1,909 0.90 120 2,005 6 .. 4 19 73 102 65 30 17 5 315 8.6 1,890 1,392 0.74 24 114 1,752 7 .. 1 9 55 71 40 28 11 5 220 6.0 1,540 1,012 0.66 7 63 385 1,085 8 .. 1 12 33 54 28 17 5 3 153 4.2 1,224 667 0.54 8 96 264 856 9 .. 7 15 19 10 14 3 4 72 2.0 ! 648 340 0.52 63 306 279 10 .. 3 14 9 14 5 2 47 1.3 470 202 0.43 30 140 90 210 11 .. 7 7 4 1 19 0.5 209 77 0.37 77 121 11 12 .. 1 1 8 1 1 3 15 0.4 180 74 0.41 12 12 108 48 13 .. 1 1 1 1 4 0.1 52 24 0.46 13 13 26 14 .. 1 1 2 0.1 28 10 0.36 14 14 15 and over ------Total } Private . No. 30 370 949 1,119 680 349 114 51 3,662 ------Families % 0.8 10.1 25.9 30.6 18.6 9.5 3.1 1.4 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 81 1,141 3,557 4,631 2,911 1,544 577 246 - - 14,688 - - 144 423 1,541 112,580 Rooms occupied 30 740 2,847 4,476 3,400 2,231 936 602 - - 15,262 1.04 - - - - - I .I Newry No.2 Rural District 1 ,·, 98 396 176 120 44 31 7 2 874 13.9 874 2,397 2.74 874 2 .. 51 465 333 244 79 84 23 11 1,290 20.5 2,580 4,214 1.63 2,580 3 .. 27 314 284 265 99 113 27 13 1,142 18.2 3,426 4,147 1.21 81 3,345 4 .. 4 230 245 244 100 79 29 16 947 15.1 3,788 3,596 0.95 16 3,772 5 .. 5 146 195 175 70 67 27 11 696 11.1 3,480 2,700 0.78 25 730 2,725 6 .. 1 88 133 144 61 61 29 12 529 8.4 3,174 2,215 0.70 6 528 2,640 7 .. 1 56 96 83 39 42 13 5 335 5.3 2,345 1,364 0.58 7 392 672 1,274 8 .. 24 65 65 29 29 3 2 217 3.4 1,736 881 0.51 192 520 1,024 9 .. 23 35 38 16 15 4 4 135 2.1 1,215 557 0.46 207 657 351 10 .. 5 18 24 13 10 1 71 1.1 710 295 0.42 50 180 240 240 11 . . -. 3 4 8 7 1 1 1 25 0.4 275 109 0.40 33 44 165 33 12 .. 5 9 3 3 1 21 0.3 252 95 0.38 60 144 48 13 .. 3 2 1 6 0.1 78 39 0.50 39 26 13 14 .-. 1 2 3 0.1 42 11 0.26 14 28 15 and over ------~ ------Total } Private No.· 187 1,750 1,590 1,424 560 537 163 80 6,291 ------Families % 3.0 27.8 25.3 22.6 8.9 8.5 2.6 1.3 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 335 5,320 6,252 6,064 2,507 2,389 721 387 - - 23,975 -- 342 951 3,763 18,919 Rooms occupied 187 3,500 4,770 5,696 2,800 3,392 1,360 915 - - - 22,620 0.94 - - - - COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 13

TABLE 10.-Private families: Size, Rooms Occupied, County, Urban Districts, and and Density of Room Occupation-contimted Rural Districts.

Number of Private Families occupying the Private Rooms Population at following Number of Rooms Families Occupied following Densities

Number of I Persons in Over4 4 and 3and 2 per- Per per- over3 over 2 sons Family, etc. 1 o· 2 3 4 5 6-7 8-9 10 and No. ,o Popu- No. per- sons per- per- and over lation son per sons sons less room per per per I room room room ------I I I ---- Tanderagee Rural District 1 . . 2 16 37 29 6 13 2 1 106 11.9 106 404 3.81 . 106 2 .. 1 18 63 66 28 21 4 1 202 22.7 404 804 1.99 404 3 .. 1 6 37 58 26 32 4 3 167 18.7 501 752 1.50 3 498 4 .. 3 35 47 23 23 4 6 141 15.8 564 669 1.19 564 5 .. 4 13 34 21 17 4 1 94 10.6 470 441 0.94 20 450 6 . . 18 26 10 10 4 2 70 7.9 420 327 0.78 . 420 7 .. 2 10 12 13 10 2 1 50 5.6 350 237 0.68 14 70 266 8 .. 5 7 6 6 3 27 3.0 216 136 0.63 40 176 9 .. •3 6 2 6 17 1.9 153 81 0.53 81 72 10 .. 4 1 2 7 0.8 70 33 0.47 40 30 11 .. 2 2 3 7 0.8 77 37 0.48 44 33 12 .. 1 1 0.1 12 4 0.33 12 13 .. 1 1 2 0.2 26 10 0.38 13 13 . 14 .. 15 and over ------Total } Private No. 4 49 221 293 138 144 27 15 891 ------Families % 0.4 5.5 24.8 32.9 15.5 16.2 3.0 1.7 - 100.0 ------Population in Private Families 7 116 724 1,130 586 626 120 60 - - 3,369 - - 27 323 3,019 Rooms occupied 4 98 663 1,172 690 906 227 175 - - - 3,~35 1.17 - - - - I 14 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE H.-Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than County Urban Districts, and Private Houses : Class, Number, Rural Districts. Total Population, and (for lnstitu .. tions) Number of Inmates.

DEFINITION-Dots (.) indicate "none," and dashes (-) indicate that information cannot or is not intended to be given. ·

Number Total Population Inmates only (Classes 2-9) Class of Inhabited Building, etc., of and area in which situated Inhabited Buildings, Persons Males Females Persons Males Females etc.

1. Hotels and Boarding Houses Armagh Urban District 33 263 144 119 Keady , , 8 44 26 18 Lurgan " , 24 161 78 83 Portado\vn , , 28 167 90 77 Armagh Rural District 14 85 41 44 Lurgan , 5 30 18 12 Newry No.2, , 10 64 26 38 Tanderagee , , 3 14 6 8 Armagh County 125 828 429 399 2. Poor Law Institutions Lurgan Urban District 179 77 102 138 75 63 Armagh Rural District 264 143 121 248 138 110 Newry No.2, , 297 159 138 260 154 106 Armagh County 3 . 740 379 361 646 367 279 3. District Hospitals 4. Institutions for Lunatics Armagh Rural District 3 714 357 357 622 324

Armagh County 3 714 357 357 622 324 298 5. Institutions for Cripples 6. Institutions for Blind Armagh Rural District 8 6 2 6 6

Armagh County 6 2 6 6 1. Institutions for Deaf and Dumb B. Hospitals and Nursing Homes Armagh Urban District 1 41 15 26 24 13 11 Portadown , , 1 24 5 19 18 5 13 Armagh Rural District 1 27 13 14 23 13 10 Armagh County 3 92 33 59 65 31 34 9. Prisons Armagh Urban District 40 40 28 28

Armagh County 40 40 28 28 10. Shipping (Sea-going)

11. Shipping (! nland) Lurgan Rural District 2 8 8

Armagh County 2 8 8 12. Other Premises Armagh Urban District 18 462 384 78 Keady , , 3 28 8 20 Lurgan , , 6 77 15 62 Portadown , , 3 30 7 23 Tanderagee , , 3 7 4 3 Armagh Rural District 22 304 90 214 Lurgan , , 10 116 25 91 Newry No.2, , 18 233 141 92 Armagh County 83 1,257 674 583 13. Vagrants Armagh Rural District 2 2 Lurgan , , 1 1

Armagh County 3 3 Total for Armagh County of all Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Houses 221 3,690 1,889 1,801 1,367 728 639 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 15 TABLE 12.-Population, Parliamentary Electors, Parliamentary Constituencies and Members of Parliament. NOTE.-The 1937 register is the register of electors prepared in respect of the qualifying period of six months ending on 15th July, 1937.

Parliamentary Electors Electors . (persons) (1937) Register per 1,000 Population Number of Parliamentary Population, 1937 Residence Members of Constituency All Qualifications Qualifica- I Parliament tions only Residence Other Qualifica- Qualifica- tions tions Persons I Males Females Persons Males Females Persons I FOR NORTHERN IRELAND ELECTIONS Armagh Parliamentary County .. 108,815 54,271 54,544 69,1p7 34,285 34,882 68,806 632 3 4 ' - Central Armagh .. 28,859 14,189 14,670 18,049 8,753 9,296 17,919 621 5 1 Mid Armagh .. 25,412 12,951 12,461 15,833 7,909 7,924 15,768 620 3 1 North Armagh .. 27,668 13.405 14,263 18,505 8,960 9,545 18,370 664 5 1 South Armagh .. 26,876 13,726 13,150 16,780 8,663 8,117 16,749 623 1 1

FOR UNITED KINGDOM ELECTIONS Armagh Parliamentary I County . . . . 108,8151 54,271 I 54,544 69,250 34,348 34,902 68,889 633 3 1

TABLE 13.-Adjustment of Enumerated Population County, Urban Districts, and to obtain Resident Population. Rural Districts. DEFINITION.-The term" Usual Residence" is defined on page viii.

Enumerated Usually Adjustment for in the urban resident Usual Residence or rural in the (between Northern Enumerated area, but urban or Ireland urban and in the area, Urban and Rural Enumerated usually rural area, rural areas only) but usually Districts Population resident but enum- Col. (4)-Col. (3) resident in another erated in outside such area another Northern in Northern such area Per 1,000 Ireland Ireland in Northern Numbers enumerated Ireland (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) {Persons 108,815 866 806 - 60 - 0.6 367 ARMAGH COUNTY Males 54,271 370 347 - 23 - 0.4 153 Females 54,544 496 459 - 37 - 0.7 214 {Persons 35,650 364 426 + 62 + 1.7 133 All Urban Districts Males 16,879 148 210 + 62 + 3.7 63 Females 18,771 216 216 70 {Persons 73,165 502 380 - 122 - 1.7 234 All Rural Districts . Males 37,392 222 137 - 85 - 2.3 90 Females 35,773 280 243 - 37 - 1.0 144 URBAN DISTRICTS {Persons 7,064 105 137 + 32 + 4.5 61 I Armagh Males 3,563 32 65 + 33 + 9.3 24 Females 3,501 73 72 - 1 - 0.3 37 {Persons 1,260 7 20 + 13 + 10.3 6 Ready Males 597 6 10 + 4 + 6.7 4 Females 663 1 10 + 9 + 13.6 2 {Persons 13,766 162 92 - 70 - 5.1 35 Lurgan Males 6,404 so 43 - 37 - 5.8 19 Females 7,362' 82 49 - 33 - 4.5 16 {Persons 12,440 88 160 + 72 + 5.8 29 Portadown Males 5,796 30 86 + 56 + 9.7 16 Females 6,644 58 74 + 16 + 2.4 13 ' 1,120 2 17 15 13.4 2 {Persons . 6 + + Tanderagee Males 519 + 6 + 11.6 Fema~es 601 2 11 + 9 + 15.0 2 RURAL DISTRICTS . {Persons 30,370 245 141 - 104 - 3.4 98 Armagh Males 15,703 109 45 - 64 - 4.1 38" Females 14,667 136 96 - 40 - 2.7 60 {Persons 14,843 96 82 - 14 - 0.9 "36 Lurgan Males 7,325 42 30 - 12 - 1.6 11 Females 7,518 54 52 - 2 - 0.3 25 {Persons 24,569 143 115 - 28 - 1.1 94 :Newry No.2 Males 12,612 63 45 - 18 - 1.4 40 Females 11,957 80 70 - 10 - 0.8 54 3,383 18 42 + 24 + 7.1 6 "Tanderagee r=onsMales . 1,752 8 17 + 9 + 5.1 1 Females 1,631 10 25 + 15 + 9.2 5 16 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 14.-Ages (Individual Years), Sex, and County .. Marital Condition.

Males Females Age last Persons \Vidowed \Vidowed Birthday Total Single* Married and Total Single* Married and Divorcedt Divorcedt

All Ages 108,815 54,271 34,833 17,042 2,396 54,544 32,192 17,592 4,760 0 2,013 980 980 1,033 1.,033 1 1,961 1,037 1,037 I 924 924 2 1,915 962 962 95S 953 3 1,938 953 9F;3 985 985 .. 4 1,934 984 984 950'·t 950 0-4 9,761 4,916 4,916 4,845 4,845 5 1,885 1,028 1,028 857 857 . 6 1,978 956 956 1,022 1,022 7 1,923 992 992 931 931 . 8 1,928 976 976 952 952 9 2,004 1,055 1,055 949 949 5-9 9,718 5,007 5,007 4,711 4,711 10 2,054 1,026 1,026 1,028 1,028 11 2,072 1,073 1,073 999 999 . 12 2,049 1,050 1,050 999 999 13 2,182 1,098 1,098 1,084 1,084 . 14 2,107 1,103 1,103 1,004 1,004 10-14 10,464 5,350 5,350 5,114 5,114 15 2,192 1,139 1,139 1,053 1,053 . 16 2,159 1,135 1,135 1,024 1,020 4 17 1,896 1,028 1,028 868 862 6 18 1,776 952 949 3 824 795 29 19 1,483 743 734 9 740 691 49 15-19 9,506 4,997 4,985 12 4,509 4,421 88

20 1,538 764 756 8 774 688 85 1 21 1,644 844 800 44 800 673 127 22 1,793 896 828 68 897 694 202 1 23 1.755 854 723 131 901 644 253 4 24 1,723 844 681 163 879 575 302 2 20-24 8,453 4,202 3,788 414 4,251 3,274 969 8 25 1,735 854 663 187 4 881 568 308 & 26 1,692 882 642 238 2 810 487 320 3 27 1,633 849 585 262 2 784 428 351 5 28 1,649 797 508 284 5 852 437 408 7 29 1,555 773 459 308 6 782 381 397 4 25-29 8,264 4,155 2,857 1,279 19 4,109 2,301 1,784 24 30 1,708 842 498 339 5 866 353 501 1Z 31 1,313 619 313 305 1 694 257 426 11 32 1,498 723 364 353 6 775 291 473 11 33 1,347 667 301 364 2 680 255 414 11 34 1,365 659 287 361 11 706 255 440 11 30-34 7,231 3,510 1,763 1,722 25 3,721 1,411 2,254 56 35 1,363 662 296 360 6 701 262 416 23 36 1,663 819 325 478 16 844 265 549 30· 37 1,393 676 263 403 10 717 233 ~ 460 24 38 1,506 713 262 436 15 793 233 530 30 39 1,297 594 184 387 23 703 187 490 26 35-39 7,222 3,464 1,330 2,064 70 3,758 1,180 2,445 133 40 1,649 769 291 455 23 880 258 580 42 41 988 497 147 336 14 491 119 350 22 42 1,345 639 202 418 19 706 169 499 38 43 1,097 510 143 342 25 587 164 391 32 44 1,094 519 158 347 •14 575 163 366 46 4Q-44 6,173 2,934 941 1,898 95 3,239 873 2,186 18C) 45 1,280 621 185 417 19 659 170 441 48 46 1,090 533 142 375 16 557 139 371 47 47 1,088 527 134 367 26 561 145 367 49 48 1,233 606 152 429 25 627 171 387 69 49 1,066 556 174 350 32 510 121 339 50 45-49 5,757 2,843 787 1,938 118 2,914 746 1,905 263

*t-Se.;> footnotes at end of table. COUNTY OF ARMAGH: 17

TABLE 14.-Ages (Individual Years), Sex, and County. Marital Condition-oontinuecl.

Males Females Age Widowed Widmved last Persons Total Single* Married and Total Single* Married and Birthday :!)ivorced t Divorcedt

50 1,460 749 211 490 48 711 161 439 111 51 831 390 89 277 24 441 90 290 61 52 1,061 529 147 347 35 532 135 319 78 53 868 439 119 291 29 429 112 263 54 54 1,078 524 120 367 37 554 115 352 87

50-54 5,298 2,631 686 1,772 173 2,667 613 1,663 391

55 1,026 525 123 365 37 501 121 290 90 56 1,012 513 140 329 44 499 125 288 86 57 901 434 Ill 287 36 467 108 262 97 -58 1,042 503 114 333 56 539 132 311 96 .59 963 478 114 319 45 485 103 270 112

55-.59 4:,944 2,453 602 1,633 218 2,491 589 1,421 481 ,60 1,249 624 179 372 73 625 152 320 153 •61 763 397 95 263 39 366 104 183 79 62 987 469 117 289 63 518 138 237 143 ·6~~ 859 451 109 281 61 408 96 203 109 64 973 496 102 328 66 477 120 203 154 160-64 4,831 2,437 602 1,533 302 2,394 610 1,146 638 65 1,080 544 155 321 68 536 132 214 190 66 896 437 109 258 70 459 121 204 134 67 859 453 107 256 90 406 118 168 120 68 805 405 84 253 68 400 107 157 136 69 778 403 96 238 69 375 87 141 147 165-69 4,418 2,242 551 1,326 365 2,176 565 884 727 70 959 445 124 220 101 514 136 176 202 71 600 280 66 144 70 320 89 108 123 72 755 361 78 187 96 394 ·125 106 163 73 592 277 56 147 74 315 83 85 147 74 521 230 50 104 76 291 69 76 146 '70-74 3,427 1,593 374 802 417 1,834 502 551 781 75 502 232 54 108 70 270 71 63 136 76 485 238 49 116 73 247 66 45 136 77 380 177 27 88 62 203 57 42 104 78 361 166 28 65 73 195 50 40 105 79 269 128 23 56 49 141 27 26 88 75-79 1,997 941 181 433 327 1,056 271 216 569 80 304 125 30 46 49 179 50 19 110 81 166 70 15 33 22 96 27 13 56 82 199 100 15 37 48 99 20 13 66 83 143 63 6 22 35 so 20 6 54 84 128 57 15 22 20 71 11 4 56 80-84 940 415 81 160 174 525 128 55 342 85 97 40 6 17 17 57 9 7 41 86 106 50 12 15 23 56 9 8 39 87 70 32 3 10 19 38 4 4 30 88 35. 16 3 6 7 19 3 3 13 89 17 8 2 6 9 2 1 6

85-89 325 146 26 48 72 179 27 23 129 !:-)0 26 11 2 1 8 15 3 1. 11 91 18 9 2 2 5 9 3 1 5 92 2 1 1 1 1 93 2 1 I 1 1 94 14 7 1 1 5 7 1 6 '90-94 62 29 5 5 19 33 7 2 24

95 11 4 1 2 1 7 2 5 96 4 1 1 3 1 2 97 5 1 1 4 4 98 99 1 1 1 95-99 21 6 1 3 2 15 3 12

:1:100 and over 3 .. 3 1 2 . . * Including all persons under 14 years of age and persons aged 14 and over m respect of whom mformatlon as to mantal condition was not g1ven . Persons of the latter description numbered :-Males, 12 : Females, 12. t The persons returned as divorced numbered :-~ales, 7 : Females, 2. .:1: Comprising 1 single female (aged 100), and 2 w1dows (1 aged 102, and 1 aged 103). 18 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 15.-Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, Aggregate of Urban Districts, and and Marital Condition. Aggregate of Rural Districts.

Males Females

Age \Vidowed ·widowed last Persons Total Single* Married and Total Single* Married and Birthday Divorcedt Divorcedt

Aggregate ofI Urban Districts All Ages 35,650 16,879 10,295 5,939 645 18,771 11,119 6,188 1,464 0-4 3,449 1,682 1,682 1,767 1,767 5-9 3,309 1,694 1,694 1,615 1,615 10-14 3,496 1,826 1,826 1,670 1,670 15-19 3,257 1,662 1,658 4 1,595 1,556 39 20-24 3,107 1,426 1,211 215 1,681 1,235 444 2

25-29 3,135 1,444 811 624 9 1,691 900 780 11 30-34 2,593 1,224 424 793 7 1,369 473 874 22 35-39 2,502 1,167 288 857 22 1,335 406 869 60· 40-44 2,047 908 166 708 34 1,139 305 767 67 45-49 1,860 837 149 647 41 1,023 255 649 119·

50-54 1,624 735 112 567 56 889 184 561 144 55-59 1,373 620 so 469 71 753 175 416 162 60-64 1,249 563 69 408 86 686 174 330 182 65-69 1,106 480 56 335 89 626 162 247 217 70-74 836 334 41 193 100 502 139 143 22(}

75-79 442 177 21 83 73 265 70 54 141 80-84 196 75 5 25 45 121 28 13 80 85-89 57 21 2 9 10 36 5 2 29 90-94 7 3 1 2 4 4 95 and over 5 1 1 4 4

l I Aggregate of Rural Districts All Ages I i3,165 37,392 24,538 11,103 1,751 35,773 21,073 11,404 3,296 0-4 6,312 3,234 3,234 3,078 3,078 5-9 6,409 3,313 3,313 3,096 3,096 10-14 6,968 3,524 3,524 •' 3,444 3,444 15-19 6,249 3,335 3,327 8 2,914 2,865 49 20-24 5,346 2,776 2,577 199 2,570 2,039 525 6

25-29 5,129 2,711 2,046 655 10 2,418 1,401 1,004 13: 30-34 4,638 2,286 1,339 929 IS 2,352 938 1,380 34 35-39 4,720 2,297 1,042 1,207 48 2,423 774 1,576 73- 40-44 4,126 2,026 775 1,190 61 2,100 563 1,419 liS. 45-49 3,897 2,006 638 1,291 77 1,891 491 1,256 144

50-54 3,674 1,896 574 1,205 117 1,778 429 1,102 247' 55-59 3,571 1,833 . 522 1,164 147 1,738 414 1,005 319· G0-64 3,582 1,874 533 1,125 216 1,708 436 816 456- 65-69 3,312 1,762 495 991 276 1,550 403 637 510 70-74 2,591 1,259 333 609 317 1,332 363 408 561

75-79 1,555 764 160 350 254 791 201 162 428 80-84 744 340 76 135 129 404 100 42 262 85-89 268 125 24 39 62 143 22 21 100 90---94 55 26 5 4 17 29 7 2 20 ~95 and over 19 5 1 2 2 14 4 .• 10

* Including all persons under 14 years of age and persons aged 14 and over in respect of whom information as to marital condition was not given. Persons "of the latter description numbered: In the Urban aggregate 2 males, 4 females, and in the Rural aggregate 10 males, 8 females. t The persons returned as divorced numbered: In the Urban aggregate 3 males, and in the Rural aggregate 4 males, 2 females. :1: Including 1 single female (aged 100), and 2 widows (1 aged 102, and 1 aged 103). COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 19

TABLE 16.-Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, County, U~an Districts, and and Marital Condition. Rural Districts.

Armagh County Armagh Urban District Marital Condition I Males Females Males Females .

Total .. 54,271 54,544 3,563 3,501

*Single .. 34,833 32,192 2,356 2,081 Married .. 17,042 17,592 1,078 1,131 ·widowed .. 2,389 4,758 129 289 Divorced .. 7 2 Total Married Total l\·farried Age last Population only Population only Birthday Males Females Males Females Males I Females Males Females 0-4 .. 4,916 4,845 315 318 . 5-9 .. 5,007 4,711 354 301 10-14 .. 5,350 5,114 402 297 . 15-19 .. 4,997 4,509 12 88 460 314 9 20-24 .. 4,202 4,251 414 969 302 310 23 72 25-29 .. 4,155 4,109 1,279 1,784 250 298 81 112 30-34 .. 3,510 3,721 1,722 2,254 271 237 158 151 35-39 .. 3,464 3,758 2,064 2,445 224 271 150 185 40-44 .. 2,934 3,239 1,898 2,186 :202 241 140 167 45-49 .. 2,843 2,914 1,938 1,905 174 197 123 128 50-54 .. 2,631 2,667 1,772 1,663 157 163 119 90 55-59 .. 2,453 2,491 1,633 1,421 113 137 89 80 60-64 .. 2,437 2,394 1,533 1,146 117 124 71 62 65-69 .. 2,242 2,176 1,326 884 91 114 62 40 70-74 .. 1,593 1,834 802 551 81 96 46 22 75-79 .. 941 1,056 433 216 37 47 12 11 80-84 .. 415 525 160 55 9 23 2 2 85-89 .. 146 179 48 23 1 8 90-94 .. 29 33 5 2 2 3 I t95 and over .. 6 18 3 1 2 1

Keady Urban District Lurgan Urban District Marital Condition Males Females Males Females

Total .. 597 663 6,404 7,362

Single .. 380 405 3,854 4,439 Married .. 190 196 2,289 2,382 Widowed .. 27 62 259 541 Divorced .. 2 Total Married Total Married Age last Population only Population only Birthday Males Females Males Females Males I Females Males Females 0-4 .. 59 60 715 720 . 5- 9 .. 60 62 660 647 10-14 .. 52 65 666 651 . 15-19 .. 53 63 2 544 574 11 20-24 .. 41 48 4 5 545 656 89 169 25-29 .. 51 57 18 32 579 701 267 333 30-34 .. 38 44 19 25 472 571 313 351 35-39 .. 46 40 29 26 459 518 338 323 40-44 .. 30 47 23 30 336 427 259 280 45-49 .. 27 32 18 20 308 387 249 233 50-54 .. 27 23 17 13 275 325 210 202 55-59 .. 34 26 22 13 217 294 163 157 60-64 .. 28 21 17 9 207 280 154 131 65-69 .. 17 26 10 11 181 249 121 101 70-74 .. 21 27 10 8 126 212 70 70 75-79 .. 9 16 2 2 70 84 38 13 80-84 .. 4 4 1 29 53 11 7 85-89 .. 2 14 11 7 1 90-94 .. 1 95 and over .. 2 I *t See footnotes at end of table. 20 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 16.-Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, County, Urban Districts, and and Marital Condition-contim~ed. Rural Districts.

Portadown Urban District Tanderagee Urban District Marital Condition Males Females Males Females

Total 5,796 6,644 519 601

Single 3,389 3,847 316 347 Married 2,193 2,289 189 190 Widowed 213 508 14 64 Divorced 1

,, Total Married Total Married Age last Population only Population only Birthday Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females 0-4 554 626 39 43 5- 9 570 562 50 43 10-14 650 617 56 40 15-19 549 585 4 15 56 59 2 20-24 487 603 93 180 51 64 6 18 25-29 518 589 235 284 46 46 23 19 30-34 410 468 285 321 33 49 18 26 35-39 411 470 320 316 27 36 20 19 40-44 316 394 268 268 24 30 18 22 45-49 294 375 225 247 34 32 32 21 50-54 254 340 205 232 22 38 16 24 55-59 241 275 184 154 15 21 11 12 60-64 187 234 146 121 24 27 20 7 65-69 171 212 129 85 20 25 13 10 70-74 95 144 59 37 11 23 8 6

75-79 54 100 29 25 7 18 2 3 80-84 29 37 9 3 4 4 2 1 85-89 6 13 2 1 2 90-94 1 95 and over

Armagh Rural District Lurgan Rural District Marital Condition Males Females Males Females

Total 15,703 14,667 7,325 7,518

Single 10,328 8,636 4,536 4,443 Married 4,628 4,713 2,442 2,474 Widowed 746 1,316 345 601 Divorced 1 2 2 Total Married Total Married Age last Population only Population only Birthday Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0-4 1,307 1,219 675 686 5-9 1,332 1,283 715 627 10-14 1,456 1,445 689 683 15-19 1,411 1,159 2 27 651 638 6 7 20-24 1,138 1,029 79 212 556 577 68 138 25-29 1,153 957 259 422 576 589 195 257 30-34 962 923 384 551 484 527 250 303 35-39 983 1,070 500 682 459 499 282 349 40-44 847 840 487 556 412 463 280 312 45-49 844 811 548 539 380 375 278 246 50-54 800 747 493 454 357 374 257 240 55-59 805 714 512 402 286 337 207 194 60-64 806 717 469 336 320 318 228 1J2 65-69 751 663 393 280 289 283 174 122 70-74 ,550 509 267 152 215 272 105 81 75-79 343 338 161 70 153 150 66 35 80-84 151 161 56 20 64 87 31 11 85-89 56 65 16 8 34 28 12 7 90-94 7 12 - 2 2 8 4 "2 95 and over 1 5 2 1 1

*t See footnotes at end of table. COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 21 TABLE 16.-Ages (Quinquennial Groups), Sex, County, Urban Districts, and and Marital Condition-continued. Rural Districts.

Newry No. 2 Rural District Tanderagee Rural District Marital Condition Males Females Males Females

Total .. 12,612 11,957 1,752 1,631

Single .. 8,566 7,066 1,108 928 Married .. 3,483 3,665 550 552 Widowed .. 562 1,226 94 151 Divorced .. I Total Married Total Married Age last Population only Population only Birthday I Males Females Males Females Males Females Males I Females 0-4 .. 1,109 1,062 143 111 5- 9 ... 1,112 1,051 154 135 10-14 .. 1,211 1,188 168 128 15-19 .. 1,122 979 14 151 138 1 20-24 .. 949 827 42 157 133 137 10 18 25-29 .. 860 754 172 284 122 118 29 41 30-34 .. 736 773 251 455 104 129 44 71 35-39 .. 754 749 369 472 101 105 56 73 40-44 .. 667 699 361 481 100 98 62 70 45-49 .. 694 618 410 415 88 87 55 56

50-54 .. 645 580 393 355 94 ~ 77 62 53 55-59 .. 652 608 390 357 90 79 55 52 60-64 .. 659 597 374 266 89 76 54 42 65-69 .. 634 533 363 203 88 71 61 32 70-74 .. 435 476 207 144 59 75 30 31 75-79 .. 225 261 100 47 43 42 23 10 80-84 .. 105 139 39 11 20 17 9 85-89 .. 31 45 11 4 4 5 2 90-94: .. 10 11 1 2 95 and over .. 2 7 1 1

* Including all persons under 14 years of age, and persons aged 14 and over in respect of whom mformation as to marital condition was not gwen. Persons of the latter description numbered: males, 12: females, 12. fincluding 1 single female (aged 100), and 2 widows (1 aged 102 and 1 aged 103), all resident in rural districts.

TABLE 17.-Population under 21 by Ages (Individual County, Urban Districts and Years) and Religion (Roman Catholic Rural Districts. and other Denominations).

Armagh County Armagh Urban District

Age last Roman Other Roman Other Birthday Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

Maies Females Males Females Males Females Males Fe:J?ales

0-20 .. 10,124 9,541 10,910 10,412 977 806 617 472 0 .. 469 515 511 518 37 45 28 21 1 .. 517 429 520 495 43 37 28 21 2 .. 485 452 477 501 35 38 13 19 3 .. 478 487 475 498 48 47 26 18 4 .. 479 483 505 467 34 44 23 28 5 .. 501 395 527 462 56 38 29 20 6 .. 462 488 494 534 32 39 29 29 7 .. 480 470 512 461 51 44 27 21 8 .. 472 470 504 482 35 38 29 24 9 .. 509 437 546 512 38 30 28 18 10 .. 503 503 523 525 50 33 32 18 11 .. 504 497 569 502 44 34 30 29 12 .. 501 477 549 522 43 28 35 21 13 .. 509 485 589 599 46 47 36 22 14 .. 528 479 575 525 62 38 24 27 15 .. 524 477 615 576 57 40 34 30 16 .. 542 483 593 541 70 45 32 20 17 .. 486 411 542 457 69 45 52 28 18 .. 456 376 496 448 56 31 38 23 19 .. 364 358 379 382 33 31 19 21 20 .. 355 369 409 405 38 34 25 14 22 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 17.-Population under 21 by Ages (Individual County, Urban Districts, and Years) and· Religion (Roman Catholic Rural Districts. and other Denominations)-continued.

Keady Urban District Lurgan Urban District

Age last Roman Other .'Roman Other Birthday Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0-20 .. 201 218 32 41 1,206 1,187 1,448 1,517 0 .. 13 10 2 69 81 74 82 1 .. 12 12 1 59 75 86 69 2 .. 15 10 1 2 69 58 69 88 3 ... 6 7 1 3 70 68 82 77 4 .. 10 11 1 2 73 63 64 59 5 .. 8 9 1 1 75 59 67 67 6 .. 10 12 1 3 66 55 59 81 7 .. 16 12 5 2 71 53 70 70 8 .. 8 11 1 65 67 64 67 9 .. 9 10 2 1 66 60 57 68 10 .. 6 10 2 66 69 73 69 11 ... 13 11 3 4 58 62 74 62 12 .. 6 7 1 1· 61 53 68 74 13 .. 6 13 1 4 56 51 76 84 14 .. 10 12 6 1 50 48 84 79 15 .. 5 14 2 45 45 78 85 16 .. 15 11 2 7 45 51 87 86 17 .. 12 -7 2 47 48 73 75 18 .. 7 12 2 1 45 32 56 56 19 .. 6 8 2 1 26 47 42 49 20 .. 8 9 1 24 42 45 70

Portadown Urban District Tanderagee Urban District

Age last Roman Other Roman Other Birthd.ay Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

Males Females Males Females ·• Males Females Males Females

0-20 .. 635 690 1,771 1,784 69 73 139 129 0 .. 29 37 99 94 5 3 2 10 1 .. 40 21 76 93 1 2 3 8 2 .. 37 43 74 91 2 4 7 2 3 .. 35 47 58 81 1 5 7 3 4 .. 36 45 70 74 3 8 6 5 .. 36 28 83 87 3 3 6 5 6 .. 24 32 71 94 5 5 8 5 7 .. 22 35 86 67 3 1 5 3 8 .. 43 29 82 71 1 5 8 6 9 .. 30 30 93 89 4 6 7 4 10 .. 30 36 88 99 3 5 10 6 11 .. 32 28 98 91 6 3 8 2 12 .. 30 36 105 81 2 5 5 4 13 .. 26 35 99 88 5 3 7 5 14 .. 28 28 114 95 5 3 5 4 15 .. 30 33 98 93 3 5 13 10 16 .. 33 41 90 106 5 1 10 7 17 .. 30 33 95 85 3 2 7 6 18 .. 32 26 69 75 3 3 3 15 19 .. 17 24 55 69 5 2 4 8 20 .. 15 23 68 61 1 7 6 10 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 23

TABLE 17.-Population under 21 by Ages (Individual County, Urban Districts, and Years) and Religion (Roman Catholic Rural Districts. and other Denominations)-continued.

Armagh Rural District Lurgan Rural District

Age last Roman Other Roman Other Birthday Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0-20 .. 2,412 2,277 3,303 3,042 1,101 1,031 1,729 1,702 0 119 106 148 130 45 58 81 92 1 121 93 151 148 59 45 87 81 2 106 111 151 138 62 44 79 89 3 109 111 122 150 46 57 79 86 4 121 93 159 139 47 57 90 77 5 111 95 155 142 52 40 93 62 6 96 116 151 149 58 63 81 84 7 104 114 159 145 52 59 81 65 8 120 101 157 153 60 53 85 77 9 116 106 163 162 66 44 87 80 10 114 125 168 154 66 52 67 86 11 134 135 154 156 57 47 92 83 12 116 120 169 158 53 53 73 91 13 118 127 178 199 60 45 90 92 14 128 123 177 148 49 47 82 87 15 117 127 191 153 55 47 103 101 16 134 111 187 137 56 61 87 92 17 118 92 149 122 43 47 81 69 18 107 91 173 137 55 49 76 75 19 107 84 128 105 33 31 62 66

20 96 96 113 117 27 32 73 67

Newry No. 2 Rural District Tanderagee Rural District

Age last Roman Other Roman Other Birthday Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0-20 .. 3,444 3,197 1,308 >1,254 79 62 563 471

0 149 173 55 69 3 2 24 18 1 180 143 66 52 2 1 23 22 2 156 143 54 53 3 1 29 19 3 161 143 67 59 2 2 33 21 4 149 169 72 58 6 1 18 24 5 158 122 66 56 2 1 27 22 6 168 161 60 62 3 5 34 27 7 158 148 59 62 3 4 20 26 s 136 164 54 65 4 2 25 18 9 175 146 78 65 5 5 31 25 10 161 169 62 67 7 4 23 24 11 158 172 74 55 2 5 36 20 12 183 173 62 73 7 2 31 19 13 186 163 76 78 6 1 26 27 14 193 174 56 64 3 6 27 20 15 210 162 69 71 2 4 29 31 16 178 158 68 67 6 4 30 19 17. 161 134 52 47 3 3 31 25 18 147 132 52 40 4 27 26 19 135 124; 50 44 2 7 17 19

20 142 124 56 47 4 2 22 19 24 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 18.-Birthplaces. County .. DEFINITION.-For e:\.-planations of the classification see page viii.

Where Born Persons Males Females Where Born Persons Males Females

TOTAL ...... 108,815 54,271 54,544 OTHER BRITISH DoMINIONS, CoLONIES, I ETC...... 289 132 157 EUROPE: NORTHERN IRELAND .. .. 100,716 50,737 49,979 Gibraltar ...... 3 0 3 Malta ...... 4 2 2 Cyprus ...... Antrim County ...... 1,185 567 618 AsiA: India ...... 58 22 36· Armagh County ...... 88,728 45,127 43,601 Ceylon ...... 6 4 2 Other Colonies, etc., in Asia .. 8 5 3: Belfast County Borough .. .. 2,396 1,194 1,202 AFRICA: Down County ...... 5,348 2,503 2,845 South Africa ...... 15 6 & Other Colonies, etc., in Africa .. 5 3 2 Fermanagh County .. .. 449 208 241 AMERICA: Londonderry County (including County Canada ...... 154 74 so Borough) ...... 494 245 249 N evvfoundland ...... 2 2 West Indies ...... 1 1 Tyrone County ...... 2,116 893 1,223 Other Colonies, etc., in Americ~ .. . AusTRALASIA: Australia ...... 22 9 IS: IRISH FREE STATE .. .. 4,739 2,046 2,693 New Zealand ...... 11 6 5 Other Australasian Colonies, etc. .. ENGLAND ...... 1,232 542 690 Dominion, Colony, etc., not stated .. ; WALES ...... 28 12 16 ScoTLAND ...... 1,345 569 776 FOREIGN CouNTRIES .. .. 445 222 223 IsLE oF MAN ...... 4 1 3 AT SEA ...... 11 8 3 CHANNEL IsLANDs •. .. .. 6 2 4 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 25 TABLE 19.-Persons born outside Northern Ireland County, Urban Districts, and by Religion, Sex, and Duration of Rural Districts. Residence in Northern Ireland.

Enumerated in

Duration of ARMAGH COUNTY Armagh Urban District Residence in Northern Roman Other Roman Other Ireland Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

(Years) Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0 and under 5 .. 312 405 355 372 78 37 46 41 5 " " 10 .• 208 326 233 248 24 17 24 24 10 " " 20 .. 419 524 483 597 66 60 52 53 20 " " 30 .. 301 3!n 257 361 35 45 29 26 30 " " 40 .. 256 323 177 264 33 36 26 24 40 " " 50 .. 121 172 119 172 14 21 20 18 50 and over 108 12~ 97 149 8 17 11 9 Not stated 2

Total Number of Residents .. 1,725 2,275 2,165 258. 233 208 195 Total Number of Visitors .. 47 75 41 50 9 19 10 13

Total Number born outside N orthem Ireland .. 1,772 2,350 1,762 2,215 267 252 218 208

Enumerated in Duration of Residence in Keady Urban District Lurgan Urban District Northern Roman Other Roman Other Ireland Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

(Years) Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0 and under 5 .. 5 11 3 7 10 28 42 26 5 " , 10 .. 10 13 3 3 23 37 14 26 10 " " 20 .. 14 13 2 3 22 32 39 51 20 " " 30 .. 16 19 3 1 11 33 25 43 30 " " 40 .• 21 15 15 35 13 27 40 " " 50 .. 5 9 3 2 6 5 5 19 50 and over 3 7 2 6 12 11 19 Not stated I

Total Number of Residents .. 74 87 14 18 93 182 149 212

Total Number of Visitors .. 3 5 6 3

Total Number bom outside Northern Ireland .. 75 88 15 19 96 187 155 215

Enumerated in

Duration of Portadown Urban District Tanderagee Urban District Residence in Northern Roman Other Roman Other Ireland Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

(Years) Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0 and under . 5 .. 13 22 61 50 3 2 3 2 5 " , 10 .. 13 29 32 23 1 2 2 10 " " 20 .. 28 33 98 100 10 14 5 7 20 " , 30 .. 21 38 37 66 1 2 4 7 30 " " 40 .. 19 16 33 43 1 4 I 6 40 " " 50 .. 11 14 15 19 4 1 1 2 50 and over 3 5 13 22 1 2 4 Not stated

Total Number of Residents .. 108 157 289 323 21 25 16 30

Total Number of Visitors .. 2 3 10 5 1

Total Number bom outside N orthem Ireland .. 110 160 299 328 21 25 16 31 26 CENSUS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1937.

TABLE 19.-Persons born outside Northern Ireland County, Urban Districts, and by Religion, Sex, and Duration of Rural Districts. Residence in Northern Ireland-continued.

Enumerated in

Duration of Armagh Rural District "Lurgan Rural District · Residence in Northern Roman •Other Roman Other Ireland Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

(Years) Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0 and under 5 .. 60 117 103 124 20 42 51 57 5 " " 10 .. 40 78 82 92 10 21 39 34 10 " ., 20 .. 96 138 143 173 26 41 70 116 20 " " 30 .. 92 99 85 110 26 21 35 52 30 " " 40 .. 72 76 61 89 14 17 9 33 40 " , 50 .. 40 51 37 60 4 12 12 20 50 and over 44 36 36 49 3 8 13 17 Not stated 1

Total Number of Residents .. 444 595 547 698 103 162 229 329 Total Number of Visitors .. 14 19 9 16 2 5 3 7 Total Number born outside Northern Ireland .. 458 614 556 714 105 167 232 336

Enumerated in

Duration of Newry No. 2 Rural District Tanderagee Rural District Residence in Northern Roman Other Roman Other Ireland Catholic Denominations Catholic Denominations

(Years) Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females

0 and under 5 .. 122 144 35 50 1 2 11 15 5 " " 10 .. 81 128 34 33 6 3 3 11 10 " " 20 .. 155 192 55 77 2 1 19 17 20 " " 30 .. 98 140 29 40 1 10 16 30 , " 40 .. 79 122 25 33 2 2 9 9 40 " " 50 .. 35 58 19 20 2 1 7 12 50 and over 40 39 9 21 2 4 6 Not stated

Total Number of Residents .. 610 823 206 274 14 11 63 86 Total Number of Visitors .. 16 23 2 4 Total Number born outside Northern Ireland .. 626 846 208 278 14 11 63 86 COUNTY OF ARMAGH. 27

TABLE 20.-Religions. County, Urban Districts, and Rural Districts. DEFINITION.-For explanations of the classification see page viii.

Population Religions

Urban Other and and Rural Roman Catholic· Presbyterian *Church of Ireland Not Stated Districts Denominations Persons Males Female~ Per- Males Fern. Per- Males Fern. Per- Males Fem. Per- Males Fern. sons sons ~ons sons ------ARMAGH COUNTY .. 108,815 54,271 54,544 49,475 25,054 24,421 16,221 8,13(3 8,085 34,Elll 16,995 17,516 8,608 4,086 4,52!2 ------[h·ban Districts Armagh .. 7,064 3,563 3,501 4,136 2,093 2,043 833 440 393 1,842 918 924 253 112 141 Keady .. 1,260 597 663 1,027 489 538 136 66 70 92 38 54 5 4 I Lurgan .. 13,766 6,404 7,362 5,499 2,625 2,874 l,G03 750 853 5,129 2,346 2,783 1,535 683 852 Portadown .. 12,440 5,796 6,644 2,989 1,374 1,615 1,245 591 654 6,060 2,834 "3,226 2,146 997 1,149 Tanderagee .. 1,120 519 601 331 152 179 212 99 113 519 241 278 58 27 31 Ru1'al Districts Armagh .. 30,370 15;703 14,667 12,437 6,491 5,946 6,301 3,203 3,098 9,850 5,122 4,728 1,782 887 895 Lurgan .. 14,843 7,325 7,518 5,033 2,532 2,501 1,408 681 727 6,498 3,205 3,293 1,904 907 997 Newry Ko. 2 24,569 12,612 11,957 17,633 9,095 8,538 3,553 1,824 1,729 2,777 1,393 1,384 606 300 306 Tanderagee .. 3,383 1,752 1,631 390 203 187 930 4R2 448 1,744 898 846 319 169 150 ~') "'-f' f l.,f ",_ l.u1~b~ ~ ~ .. ,1

ANALYSIS OF CoLUMN IN ABOVE TABLE HEADED" OTHER AND NOT STATED DENOMINATIONS."

Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Methodist 5,106 2,417 2,689 International Bible Students' As- Brethren 1,224 575 649 sociation 18 6 12 Baptist 530 252 278 Cooneyites or Dippers 16 7 9 Society of Friends 408 200 208 Jew 12 8 4 Reformed Presbvterian 308 151 157 Testimony of Jesus 12 4 8 Elim Pentecostai Alliance 284 109 175 Christian Scientist 11 6 5 Salvation Army 278 146 132 Church of Nazarene 10 3 7 Catholic Apostolic Church 77 -37 40 tOther Denominations 50 28 22 Congregationalist or Independent Denomination not stated 81 43 38 Presbyterian 60 34 26 Non-Subscribing Presbyterian or Total-Other and not stated Unitarian .. 59 30 29 Denominations 8,608 4,086 4,522 Church of God 38 16 22 Church of Christ 26 14 12 *Including Church of England (males, 442, females, 384), and Episcopal Church of Scotland {females, 2). tThis heading comprises denominations each of which bad less than 10 adherents enumerated in the County. 19 different terms were used in descnoiifg these denominations on the Census .Schedules.

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