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year emigrated from this barony exceeded that of any 

 previous year. One man has returned from America with 

 a sum of 240/. ; others have made remittances to enable 

 their families to join them. 



Barony of Clonlisk. Emigration from this district has 

 not been considerable. 



Barony of Kells. If a free passage to America were 

 offered, many more would probably emigrate than have 

 emigrated hitherto, and the parish would pay the cost as 

 far as the port. 



Barony of Maryborough. Emigration has been consi- 

 derable during the last five years. The Catholics have 

 emigrated from distress, and the Protestants from the dis- 

 turbed state of the country. If they had the means, almost 

 all the labourers would depart old, young, married and 

 single. 



Barony of Portnahinch. The emigration has been rather 

 considerable during the last few years, the emigrants con- 

 sisting of small farmers, the best labourers and agricultu- 

 ral and useful mechanics. None of the large farmers have 

 emigrated. 



In the provinces of Munster and Ulster the answers 

 were the same. The want of means is the only obstacle 

 to emigration : those who depart are not the most wretched, 

 but the most industrious and the best conducted : two or 

 three hundred persons have emigrated from several baronies 

 each year. The Protestants say that they emigrate from 

 fear of the Catholics ; the Catholics deny this, assign- 

 ing as the true motive of their emigration the jealousy 

 of the Protestants at the landlords ceasing to make religion 

 a reason for exclusion from their farms, and the Catholics 

 obtaining them as easily as the Protestants. 



About three hundred persons emigrated from the barony 



