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of the wool is exported in yarn, and only one- 

 fourth worth worked up.. Half the wool of 

 Ireland is combed in the county ofCorke. 



A very great manufacture of ratreens at 

 Carric-on-fure, the bay worded is for ferges, 

 (balloons, &c. Woollen yarn for coarfe cloths, 

 which latter have been loft for ibme years, 

 owing to the high price of wool. The bay 

 export has declined fmce 1770, which declen- 

 fion is owing to the high price of wool. 



No wool fmuggled, not even from Kerry/ 

 not a (loop's cargo in twenty years, the price 

 too high ; the declenfion has been confider- 

 able. For every 86 packs that are exported, 

 a licence from the Lord Lieutenant, for which 

 20 1. is paid. 



From the acT: of the laft feffions of Great 

 Britain for exporting woollen goods for the 

 troops in the pay of Ireland, Mr. Abraham 

 Lane, of Corke, eftablifhed a new manufac- 

 ture of army cloathing for that purpofe, 

 which is the firfl at Corke, .and pays 40!. a 

 week in labour only. Upon the whole there 

 has been no increafe of woollen manufacture 

 within 20 years. Is clearly of opinion that 

 many fabricks might be worked up here much 

 cheaper than in France, of cloths that the 

 French have beat the Engliih out of; thefe are, 

 particularly, broad-cloths of one yard and 

 half-yard wide, from 35. to. 6s. 6d. a yard 



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