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particular they are very attentive ; to conduct 

 the mountain dreams into their grafs lands ; 

 cutting little channels, to introduce the water 

 as much as poffible over the whole j and though 

 it comes from a poor mountain of brown (tone, 

 or turf, yet the benefit they find to be very 

 great. This is a general cuftom among all the 

 little occupiers ; and they are frequently com- 

 ing to Mr. Oliver, with complaints of each 

 other for diverting or flealing one another's 

 ftreams. This is an inftance of excellent huf- 

 bandry, which I do not recollect meeting with 

 before in Ireland. They always mow it the 

 year they water it, and their crops of hay 2 

 ton, or 24. an acre. They do not reclaim any 

 mountain, but fometimes a little furze land 

 for potatoes. They have fome lime-ftone fand ; 

 but being at a diftance, they life it in fmall 

 quantities, a few barrels an acre fown for po- 

 tatoes, which is effectual in preventing them 

 from being wet or rotting. The ftate of the 

 poor people better in thefe mountainous tracts 

 than upon the rich flats of Limerick, both 

 from there being more employment and greater 

 plenty of land for them. Some few farms 

 taken in partnerfhip. The cattle fyftem is ge- 

 nerally dairying cows, which are all fet to dai- 

 rymen. There has been a fall in rents fince 

 1771-2, of 25.33. or 45. an acre, but it is not 

 falling at prefent. Building a cabbin 4!. to 5!. 

 Ditto flone, (late, &c. 25!. 



Relative to the rich lands of this country, 

 they are principally found, firfl in the barony 



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