8z ABSENTEES. 



This total dees not, however, mark the extent or value of 

 the land which yields it. I was informed in converfation that 

 the lands of the primacy would, if lett as a private eftate, be 

 worth near one hundred thoufand a year. Thefe of Derry 

 half as much, and thofe of Cafliel near thirty thoufand a 

 year. Thcfe circumftances taken into the account will ftiew 

 that feventy-four thoufand pounds a year include no inconfi- 

 derable portion of the kingdom. I have been alfo informed, 

 but not on any certain authority, that thefe fees have the pa- 

 tronage of an ecclefiaftical revenue of above one hundred and 

 fifty thoufand pounds a year more. 



SECTION 



Alfentees* 



XIV. 



'TPHERE are very few countries in the world that do not 

 J- experience the difad vantage of remitting a part of their 

 rents to landlords who refide elfewhere ; and it muft ever be 

 fo while there is any liberty left to mankind of living where 

 they pleafe. In Ireland the amount proportioned to the terri- 

 tory is greater probably than in mod other inftances ; and not 

 having a free trade with the kingdom in which fuch abfentees 

 fpend their fortunes, it is cut off from that return which Scot- 

 land experiences for the lofs of her rents. 



Some years ago Mr. Morris publifhed a lift of the Irifli abfen- 

 tees, and their rentals, but as every day makes confiderable 

 alterations, it is of courfe grown obfolete, this induced me to 

 form a new one, which I got corrected by a variety of perfors 

 living in the neighbourhood of many of t heir refpeclive eftates : 

 in fuch a detail, however, of private property, there muft ne- 

 ceflarily be many miftakes. 



I. 

 8,000 



8,OQO 



8,000 

 8,000 

 8,000 

 8,000 

 8,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 o.oco 

 6,000 

 6,000 

 Lord 



