*o K I L D A R E. 



Expenses. 



L a bo u r < £ . i c 



Rent and cefs 80 90 



A farmer that has a plough, a harrow three 

 cars, four horfes and fix cows with 50I. in his 

 pocket, will take a farm of 100 acres. Tythes 

 for wheat 7s. for oats and bere 3s. for mowing 

 ground 5s. Land fells at 22 years purchafe, 

 has fallen fince 1 772 one or two years. Coun- 

 ty cefs paid by tenant for roads is. an acre. 

 Leafes ufual three lives or 31 years, fome re- 

 newable for ever. People rather increafed. 

 Rent of a cabbin and half an acre of land, 

 40s. All Catholics. Building a new cottage 

 1 ol. which with one half an acre lets at 40s. 

 for a farm of 50 acres, 40 to 50I. Building a 

 wall 10 feet high, 18 inches thick, and 21 

 foot long, 34s. with mortar dafhed 8s. lefs, 

 Hating a guinea a fquare. 



Walked through Laughlinftown, the farm 

 of the late Mr. John Why n Baker, to whom 

 the Dublin Society, with a liberality that does 

 them great honour, gave for feveral years 

 300I. annually in order to make experiments. 



I had had the pleafurc of correfponding 

 with him feveral years, and melancholy it 

 was to fee the land of a man of fo much in- 

 genuity no longer his, and more fo, to hear 

 with all his exertions he was not able to an- 

 fvver the expectations raifed of him. I found 



what 



