| LURGAN TOWN IMPROVENTS
The Commissioners for Lurgan under the “Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854” have just published their third annual report to the ratepayers. It is an important document and is clearly indicative of the spirit of improvement which animates the lord of the manor (Lord Lurgan) and the leading inhabitants of the town.
The present means of water supply, having long been felt as inadequate to the requirements of this population, the present report contains a lengthened statement from James Thompson Esq, C.E. Professor of Engineering at Queen's College, Belfast, in which two schemes for supplying this want are very fully discussed. Of course it will be some time ere a scheme of such magnitude can be carried out, but it is well to have it “ventilated and considered”. The increase of the population of the town appears from the following table drawn by Mr. Hancock:-
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1831 |
1841 |
1851 |
1856 |
| Houses Occupied |
626 |
670 |
658 |
975 |
| Houses Vacant |
23 |
52 |
37 |
28 |
| Houses Building |
17 |
6 |
6 |
16 |
| Total of Houses |
666 |
728 |
701 |
1,019 |
| Population |
3,760 |
4,677 |
4,851 |
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From this table the present population of the town may reasonably be presumed to be between 6,000 and 7,000.
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