48 THE IRISH AGRARIAN PROBLEM. 



only 19*5 per cent, of the surface of the ground 

 is occupied by agriculture and pasture : — 



In Clifden 



In Dunfanaghy 



In Westport 



33'6 per cent. 

 30-8 M 

 3i'9 



When we only regard extent, then Ulster 

 seems to be the land of small holdings. Among 

 187,974 farmers there are 94,601, that is to say 

 just the half, whose holdings do not amount to 

 more than 15 acres, reckoning in both cases the 

 holdings of less than one acre. But according 

 to the taxation value there are out of 168,272 

 holdings only 35,370 of not more than ^4. 

 About one half of these, namely 14,912, fall to 

 Donegal, the social structure of which resembles 

 the western counties. 



We therefore obtain a clearer general view 

 if we group the holdings according to the value 

 of their produce as it appears in the assessment 

 of taxes : — 



^ Final Report on Local Taxation. Appendix, p. 34. 

 ^ Census, 190 1. 



