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of the harvesters, who was a well-built man, about 

 5 f. 10 high, told me that " about 5 f . 8 was the 

 height of the weight* of them." 



Mr. Ward, Instructor of Drill to the Dublin 

 Metropolitan Police, said : " The Mayo men could 

 not possibly be under 5 feet 5 inches;" Serjeant- 

 Major Robert Jackson of the N. Mayo Militia, said 

 the average was 5 feet 7 inches. The Rev. Maxwell 

 Close, M.R.I. A., who, during a residence of fifteen 

 years in England had seen Connachit men there 

 every year, said they were about 5 feet 7 inches ; 

 Mr. Larmenie, who was intimately acquainted with 

 Mayo, says the labourers are 5 feet 7 or 8 inches. 



Mr. James Barmingham, Surveyor of Buildings : 

 -" The men of Erris and Tyrawly are about 5 feet 

 7 inches, the women 5 feet 4 inches. Intelligent 

 and careful observers inform Fr. Kelly, P.P., Tulsk, 

 that the height of the peasants in North Mayo and 

 Sligo is about 5 feet 9 inches. The Messrs. Morris, 

 of 68 Harcourt Street, Building Surveyors, have 

 had opportunities of knowing the physical 

 characteristics of the peasants of all parts of Ireland, 

 and they affirmed that the Mayo and Sligo people 

 are about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches, well-built, and fair- 



* This seems a bull, but it stands for the Irish similar word 

 an mhdid, which means bulk, quantity, number; ca mhdid 

 means how many, how much ? 



