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another, but a marriageable girl is always the 

 prize. Hurling is a fort of cricket, but inftead 

 of throwing the ball in order to knock down 

 a wicket, the aim is to pafs it through a bent 

 flick, the ends ftuck in the ground. In thefe 

 matches they perform fuch feats of activity, as 

 ought to evidence the food they live on to be 

 far from deficient in nourifhment. 



Tythes Potatoes, 53. Wheat, barley, bere, 

 55. Oats, as. 6d. Meadow, 2s. They are 

 in the management of proftors, but the great- 

 eft hardfhip attending them, is the poor man 

 paying for his garden, while the rich grazier 

 pays nothing, owing to the famous vote of the 

 houfe of commons. 



There is only one flour mill in the barony, 

 and the increafe of tillage is very trifling, but 

 the whifky ftills at Killaloe, trebled in five or 

 fix years. 



Prices not in the tables. 



Wild ducks, is. a couple. Teal, 6d. Plo- 

 ver, 2d. Salmon, three halfpence to 3d. per 

 Ib. Large pike, 2S. 6d. each. Trout, of 

 twelve inches long, id. each. Eels, is. a do- 

 zen. Eggs, ten a penny in flimmer, three in 

 winter. Women's labour in harveft, 3d in 

 winter, 2d. Maid's wages, il. los. A lad's, 

 il. 8s. Mowing, per acre, as. 4d. Women 

 earn by fpinnirig, 3d. Hire of a car, with 

 man and horfe, is. 6d. Threfhing wheat, 



per 



