46 MONKNEWTON. 



dung being then the profit. The fows did 

 exceedingly well, and the pigs alfo in rear- 



in; 



The corn is brought to the mill from all 

 the country round to the diftance of 10 miles. 

 The farmers fend it in, and leave the price to 

 be fixed. The raifmg the mill and offices, 

 complete, cofl 20,000 1. and has eftabliihed, 

 in a fine corn country, a conftant market; 

 and has preferved the tillage of the neighbour- 

 hood, which would have declined from the 

 premium on diftant carriage. 



The flour is fent to Dublin, and the ma- 

 nufacturing country to the North about New- 

 ry, &c. 



It employs conflantly from 10 to 12 hands; 

 the common ones, 6s. 6d. a week. 



They fow much earlier, and the corn is 

 drier of late years than at firft. 



The carriage of all the flour that is not fent 

 by the navigation is by one horfe cars, which 

 carry 6 cwt. of flour twice a week to Dublin. 



The parifh of Monknewton, in the county 

 of Meath, lying between Drogheda and Slaine, 

 nearly midway, formerly belonging to the rich 

 abbey of Melifont (whofe beautiful gothic 

 ruins are in the neighbourhood', confifts of 

 very fine corn land, and moftly belongs to 



John 



