CHAPTER III. 



CASTLEBAR — UNION WORKHOUSE — GAOL — CHARITABLE RELIEF WORKS — 



NEWPORT — SIR RICHARD o'dONNELl's ESTATE FLAX CULTIVATION 



COURTRAIS METHOD OF STEEPING CLEW BAY WEST PORT MARQUIS 



OF SLIGO'S ESTATE — STOCK FARMS K1LLERY HARBOUR KYLEMORE 



— MAUME — DOORUS — CLONBRUCK — ROSS — LORD LEITRIM's DEMESNE — 

 ASHFORD SUBTERRANEAN RIVER — CANAL. 



On the lltli October I visited the union work-house 

 at Castlebar, and was conducted over the whole estab- 

 lishment by the chairman of the paid guardians. The 

 house is very extensive, every part of it seemed clean 

 and well ventilated, and it appeared in all departments 

 to be conducted in the most orderly manner. The gate 

 was surrounded by a crowd of applicants for admission, 

 in which misery of every kind was represented. The 

 financial position of this union (population 61,063) is 

 deplorable. The annual rental of the land which 

 it embraces is £49,988. The estimated expenditure 

 for the poor to 29 th September last, for tw r elve months, 

 £31,068. The rate per £1 on net value ranges from 

 9s. 7£d. to 26s. 7d. The gross debt amounted, on 25th 

 March, to £60,815. The appearance of the inmates 

 in the day rooms was listless and indifferent, and troops 

 of children were being marched about the grounds for 

 exercise. 



The county gaol is a large and well-constructed build- 



