VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



Page 

 Gort — County of Clare — Ennis — Kiver Fergus — " Corcase lands " — 

 Dromoland Castle — Sir Lucius O'Brien's farms — Bunratty — Course 

 of cropping and average produce — Fall in rents — Kiltanon — Com- 

 plaints of north country farmers — Pressure of rates driving tenants 

 of capital out of the country — Tulla — Relief roads — Scariff — Lough 

 Derg — Killaloe — The Shannon — Miltown Malbay — Corofin — Kilrush, 60 



CHAPTER VI. 



The city of Limerick — Adare — Croom — East-Lothian farmer — Bruff — 

 Rent of land — People grateful for employment — Limerick to 

 Tarbert by steamer — Tarbert — Mr Blacker's tile and pottery works 

 — Country above Tarbert — Mr Fitzgerald's peat — Glin castle — Foynes 

 — Askeaton — Clarina — Tervoe — View from Carrigogunniel — Rental 

 and price of an estate — Wretched huts, . , . .70 



CHAPTER VII. 



Castleton — Rates — Deserted land — Auxiliary poorhouse — School — 

 One mode of becoming a farmer — Mr Cox's farm — Sir D. Roche's 

 farm, its advantages— Caherass — Adare manor — Rathkeale — New- 

 castle — Lord Devon's estates — Advantage of a resident agent who 

 understands his business — Beneficial arrangement with tenants, and 

 satisfactory result — Springfield castle — Instance of fertility — Charle- 

 ville— Castle Oliver — Description of country — Kilmallock to Limerick 

 — Cratloe, ........ 81 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Cratloe — Mount Trenchard — Lord Monteagle's estate — Foynes har- 

 bour — Model farm — Agrarian outrage — Tarbert to Listowel — Turf 

 traffic — State of the people — Hopes of the landlords — Tralee — 

 Castle Island — Mr Herbert's estates — Killarney, . . .92 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Blackwater — Rosnalee — Subletting — Dromagh — King Williamstown 

 — Reclamation of waste lands — Success of the experiment dependent 

 on con-acre labour — Con-acre labour described — Valley of the Black- 

 water — Mallow to Cork — Mr Jeffryes' farms — Excellent management 

 of stock — Rent of land — " Waste land " — Because deserted — Tip- 

 perary — Lord Hawarden's farms — Road sessions — Mr Bianconi — His 

 estate — Lord Stanley's farms — Goolds Cross to Dublin — Glasnevin, 103 



