CHARLEVILLE. 71 



The road before it comes to Tullamore 

 leads through a part of the bog of Allen, 

 which feems here extenfive, and would make 

 a noble trad of meadow. The way the road 

 was made over it was fimply to cut a drain on 

 each fide, and then lay on gravel, which, as 

 fail as it was laid and fpread, bore the cars: 

 along the edges is fine white clover. 



Part of Tullamore is well built. I paifed 

 through it to Captain Johnfton's at Charleville, 

 to whom I am indebted for the following ac- 

 count of the hufbandry of the neighbourhood. 



Farms around Tullamore, are commonly 

 100 to 300 acres, but fome fmaller, and fome 

 of 5 or 600. The foil is generally a dry 

 found gravelly loam, lets from 12s. to 18s. 

 average 16s. five miles every way around. 

 Average of land let in the whole county 15s. 

 exclufive of bog. He thinks that one-feventh 

 of the county is bog or mountain; but the 

 latter pays from is. 6d. to 3s. The courfe of 

 crops : 



1. Oats on lay, fow one barrel and an half, 



get 1 o to 15. 



2. Fallow. 



3. Wheat, fow three-fourths to 1 barrel, 



get 4 to 7 barrels. 



4. Oats. 



1. Oats. 



2. Fallow. 



3. Wheat. 



4. Oats. 



5. Peafe. 



1. Potatoes 



