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3d. or 4<i. a day, by a hank a day. 8o,oool. 

 of yarn laft year exported from the port of Sli- 

 go. Price of labour, cottars 5c!. others 6d. 

 Heaps of weeds burning all over the country 

 for afhes for boiling the yarn, by poor people. 

 An acre of weeds has been fold for 61. 6s. One 

 fixth of the county bog and mountain, the reft 

 1 5s. an acre. The farms rife to large ones, 

 that are grazing, but all the tillage is carried 

 on by cottars, or very inconfiderable ones. 

 The courfes are ; 



1. Potatoes. 2. Flax. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 



1. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 



Barony of Corra, the beft in the county ; the 

 high lands all lime-ftone. Rent about Bally- 

 moat. 20s. Potatoes yield 26 barrels, at the 

 average price of fix fhillings, it weighs iocvvt. 

 Wheat yields iix and an half, orfeven barrels. 

 Oats 10 ditto. A great plenty of marie, and 

 lime-ftone, and lime-ftone gravel in all the coun- 

 try, but none ufed, except by fuch as are forced 

 to do it by their landlords. Of thefe the moil 

 generally ufed is the lime-ftone gravel. A good 

 deal of mountain, improved by little farmers, by 

 their landlord's directions. John Kelly, a little 

 cottar on Mr. Fitzmaurice's eftate, is a ftrong 

 inftance of this, and his rrjode of doing it, has 

 been by paring and burning, and fpreading the 

 afhes. He then puts in potatoes immediately, 

 gets good crops, then good oats, and would, if 

 he was able, fow grafs feeds. 



Sunday, Aii2;uft 26th, to the Right Hon- 

 Jofhua Cooper's, at Mercra, who not only re- 



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