OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 167 



From nine or ten o'clock in the morning, till two or 

 three in the afternoon, in the fummer feafon, the cattle 

 are houfed, for the purpofe of encreafing manure : 

 during all this time, thofe, who have the charge of 

 them, do nothing but idle away time. In every dif- 

 tricl, a country fchool-mafter is to be found, and a 

 fmall pecuniary matter would anfwer to pay for a few 

 hours each day for the fchooling of thofe children j 

 this might alfo be an object for farming focieties, &c. 



SECT. 5. Of abfentee and rejident Proprietors, 



THERE are very few proprietors in the county, who 

 may be confidered as total non-refidents, or, at leaft, 

 fuch as live altogether out of the kingdom. For in- 

 ftance, Lord Belmore has feveral properties in the 

 county, yet he is fet down as a non-refident, becaufe 

 he lives in a neighbouring county ; the like may be 

 faid of others. Some there are alfo, who have pro- 

 perties in the county, yet refide on rented farms in 

 other parts of it ; yet here I do not confider them as 

 actual refidents, they not living on their eftates. There 

 are feveral clergymen,pofTelTed of confiderable property, 

 txclufive of church livings, which are rjere omitted al- 

 together, as the account of the number pf parities is 

 given under the article Ecclefiajlical Divi/ion t and which 

 compofe a large portion of the county, when joined to 

 bifjiop's lands. 



