OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 59 



young heath, or bedery a common name for heath with 

 the natives, and a coarfc kind of carex grafs, which 

 fprings up immediately, after burning the heath, ia 

 Ipring, which in many parts of the county is a com- 

 mon practice, to the great deftru&km of game, but 

 more particularly groufe. 



The common cufrom is, with the occupiers of moun- 

 tainy trafts, to let the grafs for the fummer feafon, for 

 fo much a beaft, or by the fum, according to the coun- 

 try phrafe, to the inhabitants of the low lands. 



Horfes, from los. to 15^. 

 Cows, from 5^, to los. 

 Sheep, from is. to 2/. 





 In Glenchordial, between Omagh and Gortin, one 



of the appendages of the Munterloney mountains, graz- 

 ing lets fomewhat higher, it being allowed to be the 

 beft feeding mountain in the county. 



At the fall of the feafon, generally in October, great 

 numbers of the horned cattle are killed, and fold in all 

 the country fairs and markets, not by weight, but mod 

 commonly by hand or view, at from 3 ox. to 3/. a car- 

 cafe. By the country people it is called horfe-beef, 

 becaufe it is carried to market on horfeback. The 

 poorer clafs are the general purchafers, and three or 

 four of them frequently join in a carcafe. Some are 

 brought home, and fed on ftraw during the feverity of 



the winter. 







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