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DOXEC; AL. 



In 1 M><>, there were supposed to Ix- sown about 6000 



acre* .'ami tin- product- of which there would 



'. m^iie K 01' f!.i\ seed ; ;ind of that, bejun- 



ty was claimed on /jd'OO bushels, bringing L-i 400 of 



fitly, at five- shillings ]MT hu-hcl. 



M.muro. The nuir in this comity art- various. Limp, 



anil liini-stniii- gravel, though t'ouiid in great abundance-, 

 are seldom or never employed. Sea sand i- made use 

 (>t'. i- laiel on the ground in which potatoes 



are to IH> planted ; but it make* them watery and un- 

 fit tor the table. Dung, ot'nmr-e, is the principal ma- 

 nure. It ii not collected, however, with much care, 

 or applied with sufficient skill. 



Tenet*. The pr;u -.iiade little progress : the 



chief Itnces. even in the meist cultivated districts, being 

 only grass banks thrown up to mark the boundaries. 

 It i^ ne-ce- 'JUT. therefore, for the cattle- and sheep to be. 

 herded whenever there i- am corn ; and as soon as the 

 corn is all harvested, they roam at large through all 

 the fields. 



Tillage is done in many places with the spade. This 

 implement is thought to be best in preparing the 

 ground for potatoes. Potatoes are sometimes planted 

 by means of a dibble or stncen. Ucsides the common 

 spade, they also make use of the long Lcitrim /oy, 

 which resembles a tool employed by the land drainers 

 in England. The two horse Irish plough is the plough 

 in ordinary use. 



There are not many cattle produced in this county. 

 Heifers and young bullocks, when '1 or :) years old, 

 are brought from the mountains, and taken to the 

 Scotch and Knglish markets for feeding. Very few 

 are fattened, even in the most fertile district-;. Indeed 

 the pasture is in general very indifferent. And the at- 

 tention of the (K'ople is chiefly occupied with the 

 breeding of milk cows, tillage, and manufactures. 

 There are scarcely any dairies. The sheep are few in 

 number, and extremely bad in kind. On the moun- 

 tains there are some, which are represented to be as 

 fleet as greyhounds. In the barony of Inishoen, as 

 soon as the corn is carried home, the sheep of the 

 small tenants herd together, and rove about indiscri- 

 minately in search of food. There are multitudes of 

 goats here, as in most other parts of Ireland. l!a!>- 

 hite also are found in considerable abundance. On 

 the northern shore there is a warren of some extent, 

 bringing an annual revenue to its proprietor of be- 

 twe '\ six hundred pounds. 



FrimofU- The average prices of labour, e. were estimated in 



hour, &c. 1811 to be as follow: A man the year round L.8, 

 lit.; a woman, do. L.3, l.V. (id. ; carpenter per day, '/s. 

 7^d. ; mason, (lo. 2s. lO^d; slater, do. :;*. :;d. ; quarry- 

 man, do. 2*. Id.; thresher, do. Is. 3-]d. ; mason per 

 parch 8*. 5^d. ; "later per oquare 6s. S^d ; bricklayer 

 per perch, Is. fid. ; car and horse per day 2. (id. : 



none, do. S*. Jl'.d. : plough, do. :">s. ; gr.'i/ing a cow p. T 



week 1 1. Qd : dittn horse, da 8s. lod. ; shoeing a horse 

 . 2d ; labour in harvest of hay or com j>er day Is. 



Implement! 

 of husban- 

 dry. 



Cattle, 

 beep, &c. 



-- . 



ditto per 

 ivl 1 -. lil. : ! 

 mounted 1 ..-!, '-s. Md. 1. ; 



. Prices of ar. 







meal, i In. 1 undressed p<r cwt. i 



per stoni- 1..! alt butter per cwt. I... r >. ; IV. 



t!o. jier 11). ! | (ej . 



cjuart Hjd. ; I t-eef peril). Id. ; 



mut: (I. ; ptirk, .In.:: M. ; lambs 



per score ]..'> e^-, do 7(!. .|. ; 



ii, i'o. 7(1. ,!,>. I,.5, 



5s. (Jd ; potatoe h.iul. ilo. I .-r HKK! 



L.6, Id's. (id. ; salt pir stone 1 1 Ul. ; > ron per 



cwt. 1.1. (is. (Jd. ; Ku.--ian, do. I.. I 

 per Ib. 'As. 2^d. ; fowls per coup!. ,ier 



head Is. !d. ; gc-c-.-f, do. Is. ~d. : rcoople'W,; 



milk ]>er quart 



The fuel commonly m, n t'.ls county is turl' ' : " ! an<1 



and peat, of w.'iich . planlatioa. 



Ill some placi unit. 



non, it sells for a guinea and a half ]>< r ton. NV< 

 is remarkably M-arce. . : of 



ground, which might ' . ,1 w-ih 



filanttticnis, but tlie ad\ant: ; L 

 ed. It i.s only about gi 



are c-xtrcmeiy few. lii.it this iniju.A i nu !)t ! 

 ried on with any .! ;ile 



tliat the ; torni.rK ,ne 



may travel many a mile without 



and Mr Wakiiield had heart! of i:r,--d in 



mats, for want of timber to v.'irt 



oftheArds is an exttnsi\i ~ of 



want of encouragement. He ]. . iiy the oak, 



the asJi, and the birch. He r< j ^votch fir, as 



injurious to the other trees. 



Clay is found in immense quantities, and of various Miiu 

 kinds and colours On Murkisli mountain there is 

 abundance of ^ilk-eons sand, which for sometime has 

 i sent to the Balut glass iuai:ul:ictory. and employ- 

 ed there in place of that which used to , il 

 from England. In the bay of Ards, it is supplied for 

 L. J, 'Js. per ton. \Vithin a mile of I.ettcrUeiur. , and 

 half a mile of Lough Swilly, there is an eveelNnt >late 

 quarry. Lead ore is met with. The mine on the es- 

 tate of Lord Leitrim is extremely rich. t here is also 

 iron stone, coal, manganese, garnets, marble resem- 

 bling that which is denominated statuary marble, chal- 

 cedony, of which one piece was found weighing 7.', Ib. 

 and very beautiful granite. I. inn plenty. 

 There is an cxte-nsive tract of it near Ballyshannoii. 



The rents of this country are, on the whole, exceed- n cn tij, &.r. 

 ingly low. Mr U'akefield makes the- average rent to 

 be 7-i. per acre; and Mr Hamilton is of opinion, that 

 the rent of land fit for the plough is t'roi.i 

 pe-r acre. The mountains are of such trifling value as 

 to be let in the lump. In the neighbourhood of lially- 

 shannon, land let* at from .1 to S guineMs. From Hal- 

 Ivshannon to Halintnr the rent is about L.I. IDs. The 

 town park* of Donegal let at !...'>. and land without the 

 town at from l.'is. ;o :;o^. The comment leviscs given at 

 present are fur '21 years and a life ; but the greater part 

 of lltrtse- which were grante-d formerly, and are not yet 

 e-\piiv;l. we-refor(il ve-ars and three- live--. Lord Co- 

 liyngham, and Sir .lames Ste-wart, grunt the'ir le-..-e s for 

 :;i M'.ir- and thre'<' live-s. I ,orel 1 )onegers ' ti>r 



6l years, and he renews them on a tine. Minor pro 



