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Land fells at' 22 years purchafe, rack rents: 

 it has fallen 2 years. Rents have fallen within 

 4 or 5 years considerably ; thofe that were taken 

 7 or 8 years ago, have fallen from 3s. to 8s. an 

 acre. Tythes are generally hired by proclors, 

 who view the farmers crops, and compound with 

 them, making a considerable profit by it. They 

 fcrew up the poor tenants and people very fevere- 

 ly. The people are in general in much better cir- 

 cumftances than fome years ago ; more indubi- 

 ous, better fed, cloathed, and lodged : they in- 

 creafe very much. Potatoes, and milk and but- 

 ter, are their food, and oaten bread when the 

 potatoes are not in feafon : fcarce any flefh meat 

 among the poor. The linen manufacture con- 

 fills principally in fpinning, which is univerfal 

 all over the county for girls and women ; but 

 weaving is by no means general, nor does it in- 

 creafe in this neighbourhood. A woman, by 

 fpinning, will earn 4d. on an average. They do 

 not raiie enough for fupplying their wheels, fqr 

 much is brought from Dublin. There are four 

 bleach greens inthefe parts, at Ballyconnel, Bal- 

 ly nagh, Scrabby, and Ardvagh. Building a mud 

 cabbin 4I. 4s. ditto of (lone, lime and (late, 30I. 

 ditching, 6 feet wide and 5 deep, is. id. a drain 

 2 feet deep and 3 wide, 2d. to 3d. a perch. 

 Threfhing wheat is. a barrel. Outs yd. Barley 

 8d. Farming man's wages 5I. A lad 3I. to 4I. 

 A woman ia fummer 6d. a day. A wheeled 

 car coils ll. 10s. A plough 9s. A pair of 

 harrows 12s. 



Auguft 20th, took my leave of Farnham, and 

 paffed by Cavan to Granard ; got in that neigh- 



bouihood, 



