PRICE OF AN ESTATE. 79 



" corcase" land, said to be capable of producing, in its 

 natural state, 7 tons of hay to the Irish acre. The rest 

 is dry tillage-land of the best quality. It is held on a 

 lease for ever, at a rent of about 14s. an Irish acre, and 

 will be sold subject to this rent and the other conditions 

 of that lease, besides a jointure of £92 payable to a lady 

 aged 70. The yearly rents and tithe rent-charge paid 

 by the present holder are stated to be . £1374 9 8 

 The head rent £326, 15s. 5d., and re- 

 ceiver's fees, £8, 3s. 5d., .... 334 18 10 



Nett yearly profit, as stated by the adver- 

 tisement, £1039 10 10 



£18,000 was offered for this estate some years ago, 

 but not accepted; and £10,000 was offered last year, 

 and again refused. It is said this sum would now be 

 taken. Adding 5s. per pound for poor rate and county 

 cess, the present rent averages 46s. an English acre, or 

 about £3, 14s. an Irish acre : which seems high, but 

 the land is very good. 



Walking to an adjoining height, we clambered over 

 a wall, and found ourselves in the centre of a cluster of 

 miserable huts, which the owner of the land permitted 

 the people to build on rent-free. The space occupied 

 might be about a quarter of an acre in extent, the sum- 

 mit of a trap rock, without a particle of earth on it, or 

 any vegetation except what floated in the green stagnant 

 pools in the crevices of the rock, and before the doors, 

 or grew luxuriantly on the damp thatch of the roofs. 

 On this spot were huddled together about a dozen huts, 

 several of which we entered. Some of them were occu- 



