52 MARTIN ESTATE ON LOUGH CORRIB. 



But this gentleman continued the same rate throughout ; 

 and the men, finding that thej were not taken advantage 

 of, worked willingly, and made good wages. 



Returning from Balljnahinch on 19th October, we 

 examined several of the lots of the Martin estate, lying 

 along Lough Corrib,"* to the north of Oughterard. 

 That part lying between the public road and the lake 

 is highly improvable, consisting generally of dry, light 

 land, very suitable for green-crop husbandry, and not 

 difficult to bring into good grass, if well manured. Lots 

 35, 36, 38, and 39, comprising 4350 acres, have each a 

 frontage to the lake. There are numerous beautiful 

 situations on which to build. The succession of bays 

 and rounded promontories, with islands, scattered about 

 the lake, some of them beautifully wooded, afford spots 

 suited to various tastes. The beach is a clean white 

 gravel, and boats can touch at almost any part of it. 

 Sea-weed is brought from Galway in boats, and lime- 

 stone from any part of the opposite shore. When 

 steamers ply on Lough Corrib, as is contemplated on 

 the opening of the canal at Galway, to which I will 

 have occasion afterwards to refer, the scene will be much 

 enlivened, while the convenience of communication will 

 of course be greatly increased. A new road along the 

 side of the lake from Oughterard is formed, and might 

 at very little cost be completed. This property is at 

 present badly cultivated. There is some extent of bog 

 on it, which might be easily reclaimed, especially if the 



* This fine lake, which is from twenty to thirty miles long, washes a 

 great tract of country, part of which, on a different side, I had previously 

 visited. 



