294 GRANARD. 



bourhood, into a fine tracl of dry, found, gra- 

 velly land, which lets, on an average, at il. is. 

 through the barony : ufe it very much for fat- 

 tening fome bullocks, cows chiefly, and a few 

 fheep. The farms are in general large, many 

 about 200 acres. It is all a lime-ftone gravel. 

 In the town of Granard, is one clofe of 50 

 acres, called Granard Kiln, immediately under 

 a mound of earth, an antient Daniih intrench- 

 ment, which regularly fupports 50 fat cows, 100 

 fheep, 6 horfes, and is reckoned the beft fpot 

 in the county, worth 35s. an acre. The coun- 

 try, all the way from Cavan to near Carrick- 

 giafs, within 2 miles of Longford, is exceedingly 

 bare of trees. 



Reached Ballynogh, the feat of W. G. New- 

 comen, Efq; who has many trees, and well 

 planted hedge-rows, about him ; he favoured me 

 with the following particulars : about that 

 neighbourhood, lands let at 13s. 6d. from 7s. 

 to 20s. The rent of the whole county of Long- 

 ford may be reckoned at 1 2s. an acre, on an 

 average, of all that is cultivated, and one-fixth 

 part bog and mountain, which yields no rent. 

 The foil is, in general, a tolerable vegetable 

 mould on ihe furface, for three or four inches 

 deep ; under that, two-inch thick of blue clay : 

 which retains water under that yellow clay for 

 two or three feet, and then every where lirne- 

 ftoLe gravel. This is generally the foil of the 

 whole county, except the barony of Granard, 

 and a part of the county, called the Callaw, 

 which is a light lime-ftone rocky ground, pro- 

 ducing fine wheat^ and good fheep. 



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