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but not to that amount. The opprefilon 

 which the poor people have moft to complain 

 of, is the not having any tenures in their lands, 

 by which means they are entirely fubjecl: to 

 their employers. 



Manufactures here are only woollens. Car- 

 rick is one of the greateft manufacturing towns 

 in Ireland. Principally for ratteens, but of 

 late they have got into broadcloths, all for 

 home confumption j the manufacture in- 

 creafes, and is very flourifhing. There are 

 between three and four hundred people em- 

 ployed by it, in Carrick and its neighbour- 

 hood. 



Lord Tyrone is clear that if his eftate in 

 Londonderry was in Waterford, or that all the 

 inhabitants of it were to emigrate from it, fo 

 as to leave him to new model it, he would be 

 able to get full one-third more for it than he 

 can do at prefent ; rents in the north depend- 

 ing not on quality, but on price of linen. 



The rife in the profperity of Ireland, about 

 the year 1749, owing to the higher price of 

 provifions, which raifed rents and enforced 

 induftry. Butter now 9d. a Ib. thirty years 

 ago 2jd. 



Tythes are ufually compounded for by the 

 year through this county. Wheat pays jos. 

 Barley, ics. Oats, 55. Mowing ground, 45. 

 'Sheep,' id. each. Milk fells in fummer for a 



halfpenny 



