CONTENTS. 



Page 

 PREFACE 1 



CHAPTER I. 



Mullingar — Bogs— Athlone — Ballinasloe — Great annual fair— Garbally 

 — Aughrim to Loughrea — Ballinasloe to Ahascrag — Mount Belew — 

 Tuam — Peasantry — Winter food for stock — Mr Bianconi, 



CHAPTER II. 



Hollymount — Mr Lindsay's farms described — "Turloughs" — Lord 

 Lucan's farms — Ballinrobe — Cong — Castlemagarret — Plains of Mayo 

 — Castlebar — Lord Lucan's estate and management, . .14 



CHAPTER III. 



Castlebar — Union workhouse — Gaol — Charitable relief works — New- 

 port — Sir Richard O'Donnell's estate — Flax cultivation — Courtrais 

 method of steeping — Clew Bay — West Port — Marquis of Sligo's 

 estate — Stock farms — Killery harbour — Kylemore — Maume — Dooms 

 — Clonbruck — Ross — Lord Leitrim's demesne — Ashford — Subterra- 

 nean river — Canal, . . . . . . .26 



CHAPTER IV. 



Oughterard to Gal way — Annagh — Mr Bodkin's farms — Turloughs — 

 Carrying off crops — Ballinahinch — " The Martin estate " — Clifden — 

 Cleggan — Inlets of the sea — Derrygimlach — Roundstone — Peasantry 

 of Connemara — Taskwork — Description of Martin estate on Lough 

 Corrib — Farmer's house — Break down — Head of the bay of Galway 

 — Ardfry — Mr Skilling's farm — North shore of Galway Bay — Town of 

 Galway, . . . . . . . .43 



