THEIK HEIGHT, FORM, AND STRENGTH. 107 



the Royal Irish Constabulary : " Constabulary 

 Office, Dublin Castle, 14th November, 1894. Mr. 

 Thynne " (Deputy Inspector-General of the R.I.C.) 

 " and I are of opinion that the extract from Breau 

 de Quatref ages' L 'Unite de VEspece Humaine is a 

 completely erroneous description of the peasantry of 

 the counties of Mayo and Sligo. We get an unusually 

 large number of recruits for the Royal Irish Con- 

 stabulary from those counties, and the minimum 

 height for the R.I.C. is 5 feet 9 inches." 



Through Sir A. Reed I got the following informa- 

 tion collected by W. T. Croghan, Esq., County 

 Inspector of Armagh, from the Constabulary officers 

 of the districts, which embrace the Upper and Lower 

 Fews baronies : " The average height of the 

 peasantry in the baronies named would be 5 feet 

 6| inches. They are equal in features and physique 

 to their neighbours in the County Armagh, but 

 rather inferior in features to the peasantry of Down ; 

 inferior in both respects to the peasantry of Louth ; 

 equal in features but not in physique to those of 

 Monaghan." 



108. Lord Walter Fitzgerald, uncle of the Duke 



of Leinster, Captain in the King's Royal Rifle 



Corps: "Kilkea Castle, 20th November, 1894. 



That lying statement as to the Mayo 



peasantry astonished me greatly, as, though I have 



