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Shinroan, Murderinny, and Graig, to Johnf- 

 town, the feat of Peter Holmes, Efq; Much of 

 this line a very beautiful country ; near Johnf- 

 town nothing can be more pifturefque, the 

 whole well planted with hedges and little woods, 

 and confiding of the moft fanciful variety of 

 hill, dale, and fwelling declivities, upon which 

 every bufh and tree is feen to advantage. 



For the following particulars I am indebted 

 to Mr. Holmes, who, notwithstanding his 

 own ability to anfwer every queftion, trufted 

 not to it, but called in the beft afliftance the 

 neighbourhood could give. 



Baronies in the county of Tripper ary. 



Lower Ormond, 2os, an acre. Upper Or- 

 mond, 2os. Skevin, i8s. Eliogurty, aos. 

 Owen and Aira, I2S. Clanwilliam, il. as. pd. 

 Middle third, 253. Befides Iffa, OfFa, and 

 Kilnemanna. The whole county on an ave- 

 rage would now let for 2os. an acre. Rents 

 have doubled in twenty years. 



Through the whole barony of Lower Or- 

 mond, the foil is in general a dry lime-ftone 

 land. Farms are large, fome very large, few 

 lefs than 5 or 600 acres : the fize is rather in- 

 creafed. There are many without any build- 

 ings, and it is only from particular circum- 

 fiances that they let the better for them. The 

 fmall farms are taken much in partnerfhip j a 

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