Soo STROKESTOWN. 



The country is divided into inclofures by 

 ftone walls generally, fo that one fhepherd is 

 all that is kept to a flock. The wool goes 

 moftly to Corke, where it is fpun into worfted 

 and exported ; this is the account I had in this 

 country. All thefe fneep-mafters mix, as I be- 

 fore obferved, other ftock with their flocks ; 

 beiides 2 fheep per acre, they will keep at the 

 rate of 40 yearlings, and 2 or 3 year olds to eve- 

 ry 100 acres. The foil is brown loam on lime- 

 ftone gravel. Farms about Strokeftown confift 

 generally of Rundale ones, upon 2 or 300 acres, 

 there will be 10 to 1 5 families, nor is it thought 

 here a bad fyftem. Much the greateft part of 

 the land is grafs ; but what they have in tillage 

 they arrange in the following courfe ; 



1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Flax. 4. Barley. 

 5. Oats. 6. Lay out for 6 or 7 years. None of 

 them fow grafs feeds. 



i. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Wheat. 4. 

 Oats. 5. Oats. 6. Lay out. 



Much land is let for grafs, potatoes at 5I. 5s. 

 4I. and 4I. 4s. afterwards for a crop of flax. 

 They plant 4 barrels, at 5 1 cwt. each ; and they 

 get about 50 barrels an acre, the price from 4s. 

 to 15s. average 8s. To fell them on the foot 

 growing iol. is reckoned a high price. Of flax 

 feed they fow 1 1 pecks per acre, or a hoglhead 

 2 acres -, an acre fold on the foot (that is as it 

 grows) is worth 81. on an average. They com- 

 monly fow a barrel, or 20 ftone of wheat to the 



acre 



