94 



The works mentioned in this list are given in the order of counties, 

 but not in their order of importance. 



DISCUSSION. 



MR. HORNSBY said from the extreme point on the east 

 coast at Ardiglas there was a long expanse of coast line 

 which was not fished from May until the close of the year. 

 Mr. Walsh accounted for it by stating that the Kinsale 

 fisheries were first promoted by a tentative effort to 

 ascertain whether they would be worth pursuing after they 

 had lapsed for some years. Now the west coast was in 

 exactly the same condition. Those who fished at Kinsale 

 were chiefly from Scotland and the Isle of Man, and they 

 returned from there, following the direction of the fish 

 salesmen, to other parts of the coast line, chiefly to the east 

 coast to prosecute their fisheries there, under the direction 

 and stimulus of the fish curers, and under the patronage 

 of the fish salesmen. For example, the Scotch east coast 



