CH. V.] CONSOLIDATION OF FARMS. 77 



The witnesses agree in desiring that a fund should be 

 provided for the support of those who are ejected by the 

 consolidation of farms, and who have no means of sub- 

 sistence left. 



In the barony of Murrisk the witnesses stated, that 

 there was not a tenant holding ten acres of arable land, 

 and that the majority had not more than four. Since 

 1829 the forty-shilling freeholders have been disfranchised, 

 and the franchise has been raised to 10/; the landlords 

 have endeavoured, but fruitlessly, to consolidate the farms. 

 Twenty families, comprising 114 souls, were ejected from 

 the lands of one proprietor by his agent ; as the lands 

 were held under a joint-tenancy without a lease, the drivers, 

 previous to ejectment, seized all the corn, made the 

 tenants thresh it, and sold it to pay the rent due. These 

 families, who held amongst them about 63 acres, had no- 

 thing then for it but to beg, since no trade has found its 

 way into the country. Those who beg generally go to 

 other places, as they do not like to show their misery at 

 home. 



A general disposition to emigrate exists among the small 

 tenantry, and half the population would go to America if 

 the proprietors paid their passage, which they have not the 

 means of doing. 



Fully one quarter of the barony consists of unreclaimed 

 but improveable bog-land ; capital and industry are alone 

 requisite to bring it into cultivation. 



In the barony of Carbery, from an examination of the 

 maps of one parish, and inquiries among the tenants, it 

 appeared to the Commissioners that there were no farms 

 above thirty acres each, not six above twenty, and that the 

 majority were between five and ten acres. The twenty 



