80 GREAT BRITAIN AVTD IRELAND - AGRICULTTJRAI, ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



As regards only nien over twenty years of age, it is calculated that the 

 migration rate in 1915 for all Ireland was 5.3 per 1,000 ; for Connaught it 

 was 27.2, for Ulster 3.8, for Munster 0.5 and for Leinster o.i. The coun- 

 ties having the highest migration rates were Mayo 74.1 pen, 000, Donegal 

 30.5 per 1,000, Roscommon 13.7 per 1,000, and vSligo and Galway 7.0 

 per 1,000. In one Connaught county, Leitrim, the migrants numbered 

 only I.I per 1,000. 



From the Poor law Union returns, which concern women and men of 

 all ages, the facts as to migration can be further localized. The highest 

 migration rate in Ireland in 1915 was in Swinford union in County Mayo 

 where 42 out of ever}^ 1000 inhabitants migrated. The next highest rates 

 were 31.9 per 1,000 in Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal ; 29.8 per 1,000 in Westport, 

 Co. Mayo ; 28.2 in Glenties, Co. Donegal ; 25.0 in Belmullet, Co. Mayo ; 

 19.1 in Castlebar, Co. Mayo ; 16.7 in Claremorris, Co. Mayo ; 12.4 in Castle- 

 reagh, Co. Roscommon ; and 10.6 in Glennamadd3^ Co. Galway. 



The following figures, taken from the returns of the police enumerators, 

 show the proportion of women who migrated each year to be unimportant. 



1911 

 1912 



19 1 3 

 1914 



1915 



8,545 

 8,789 



8,394 

 7,112 

 6,927 



Women 



333 

 428 



293 

 229 



427 



Total 



9,217 

 8,687 

 7.341 

 7.354 



c) The Classes of the Migrants. 



As regards the classes from which migrants are d,ra'wn 6,338 or 86 per 

 cent, of those included in the returns of the jiolice enumerators for 1915 

 belonged to the class of landholders — 1,578 being themselves landhold- 

 ers, ^,372 landholders' sons and 388 landholders' daughters. Of the land- 

 holders 227 had holdings whichdid not exceed 5 acres, 587 held from 5 to 

 10 acres; 425 from 10 to 15 acres ; 166 from 15 to 20 acres ; 78 from 20 to 

 25 acres ; 35 from 25 to 30 acres ; 23 from 30 to ^o acres ; and 37 more than 40 

 acres. The larger holdings were chiefly rough grazing land and mountain 

 land of low value. 



d) The Places to which there is Migration. 



The following table shows the percentages of the total number of mi- 

 grant labourers from 1911 to 1915 who went, respectively, to England and 

 Wales, Scotland, and Irish districts other than those in which they had their 

 permanent home. 



