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mainder bonny clobber. Forty acres will carry 

 twenty cows through the year. The cows are 

 in general of the fmall breed, but not the true 

 Kerry, for many have been brought from other 

 countries. A cow fells at a guinea* a pcttie for 

 the milk, above two or three pottles, that is 

 4!. 48. four pottles, 5!. 5$. for five pottles, 

 given at one meal. A little fattening of cows 

 and fmali bullocks, but the number not great. 

 No fheep kept. 



As to manure none is ufed in the vale, ex- 

 cept their dung for potatoes, but upon the 

 mountains they lime a little. 



There is a colony of Palatines, that have 

 been fixed here above thirty years ; there are 

 now fifteen or fixteen families ; Colonel Halfet 

 brought them from the county of Limerick, 

 and fixed them here as little farmers, and thefe 

 few people coft him above 500!. fettling. He 

 gave each a cow, a horfe, and every thing they 

 wanted for a year, and let the land to them for 

 half its value. Their improvements have been 

 firft, by ploughing with a wheel plough, which 

 with two hories works eafily without a driver. 

 They brought in cars with wheels, there were 

 only fliding ones before. They alfo fow all 

 their potatoes in drills with the plough, and 

 alfo plough them out, and this with great 

 fuccefs, but nobody follows them. 



Years purchafe of land fixteen to eighteen. 

 Rents three years ago fallen exceedingly, from 



having 



