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who refides there ; the living is between 50I. 

 and 60L a year, and 40 acres of land, which 

 the bifhop has given from the fee lands. This 

 may truly be called a fphere for content, and 

 the philofophic virtues to exert themfelves in ; 

 there is not a poft-houfe, market-town, or juf- 

 tice of peace, in the whole barony, which is 

 alfo the cafe with another barony in this county 

 Coftello. A poft-houfe and a market are ex- 

 cellent things, but a juftice may very well be 

 difpenfed with. There are many herds of fmall 

 cattle, and fome fheep kept, which are fold 

 from thence. There is not a tree in the whole 

 barony of Errisj a man going out of it to pay 

 his rent, &c. his fon with him, a lad of near 

 twenty, when he came near Killalla, and faw 

 a tree, " Lord, Father! what is that?" But bare 

 of wood as it is at prefent, it was, in the iylvan 

 age of Ireland, completely covered: for in no 

 part of the kingdom is there found more or 

 larger in the bogs. 



The barony of Tyrawly is among the beft 

 parts of the county of Mayo; 800 bullocks, 

 moil of them far, *re fold from it annually at 

 Bailynafioe fair, which are kept here from be- 

 ing year olds, and fold at 4I. The quantity of 

 tillage is very ineonfiderable, but what there is, 

 is vaiiiv improved hy the ufe of fea weed. 

 Land:, near the fea let at 20s. which at two 

 miles, would yield hut 14s. merely from being 

 too far, as they reckon, to carry the fea weed. 

 The j o )r people in this barony are not improved 

 in their circumftances in eighteen years paft, 



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