DUBLIN, 1682.

Parishes Houses Fireplaces Baptised Buried
St. James’s 272 836 }
St. Katherine’s 540 2,198 } 122 306
St. Nicholas }
  Without and } 1,064 4,082 145 414
  St. Patrick’s }
St. Bridget’s 395 1,903 68 149
St. Audone’s 276 1,510 56 164
St. Michael’s 174 884 34 50
St. John’s 302 1,636 74 101
St. Nicholas }
  Within and } 153 902 26 52
Christ Church Lib. }
St. Warburgh’s 240 1,638 45 105
St. Michan’s 938 3,516 124 389
St. Andrew’s 864 3,638 131 300
St. Kevin’s 554 2,120 } 87 233
Donnybrook 253 506 }
                   6,025 25,369 912 2,263

The table hath been made for the year 1682, wherein is to be noted —

1.  That the houses which A.D. 1671 were but 3,850 are, A.D. 1682, 6,025; but whether this difference is caused by the real increase of housing, or by fraud and defect in the former accounts, is left to consideration.  For the burials of people have increased but from 1,696 to 2,263, according to which proportion the 3,850 houses A.D. 1671 should A.D. 1682 have been but 5,143, wherefore some fault may be suspected as aforesaid, when farming the hearth-money was in agitation.

2.  The hearths have increased according to the burials, and one-third of the said increase more, viz., the burials A.D. 1671 were 1,696, the one-third whereof is 563, which put together makes 2,259, which is near the number of burials A.D. 1682.  But the hearths A.D. 1671 were 17,500, whereof the one-third is 5,833, making in all but 23,333; whereas the whole hearths A.D. 1682 were 25,369, viz., one-third and better of the said 5,833 more.

3.  The housing were A.D. 1671 but 3,850, which if they had increased A.D. 1682 but according to the burials, they had been but 5,143, or, according to the hearths, had been but 5,488, whereas they appear 6,025, increasing double to the hearths.  So as it is likely there hath been some error in the said account of the housing, unless the new housing be very small, and have but one chimney apiece, and that one-fourth part of them are untenanted.  On the other hand, it is more likely that when 1,696 died per annum there were near 6,000; for 6,000 houses at 8 inhabitants per house, would make the number of the people to be 48,000, and the number of 1,696 that died according to the rule of one out of 30, would have made the number of inhabitants about 50,000:  for which reason I continue to believe there was some error in the account of 3,850 houses as aforesaid, and the rather because there is no ground from experience to think that in eleven years the houses in Dublin have increased from 3,850 to 6,025.