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that the bifhop has refided at Killalla. There 

 is fome weaving, fo that there is fcarcely a mar- 

 ket at Ballina, or Killalla, without fome linens 

 fold. Spinning is univerfal in all the cabbins, 

 but the yarn is only four-hank yarn. They 

 fpin and weave wool enough to cloath them- 

 felves, with drugget, yard-wide for the women, 

 at is. a yard, and frize for the men ; at a fatt, 

 or meafure, four feet two inches long, and 20 

 to 23 inches wide, which fells from is. I id. to 

 2s. 4d. Their food is potatoes, cockles, her- 

 rings, and a little meal; and when the potatoes 

 are out, on oatmeal only. They do not all 

 keep cows, but the majority do, and thofe who 

 do not, buy milk. Beef id. per lb. in autumn, 

 twenty years ago, now three halfpence. Fifh 

 very plentiful; I partook of three gurnet, two 

 mackarel, and one whiting, at the bifhop's 

 table, which his fteward bought for fixpence 

 halfpenny, enough to dine fix people. Lobfters 

 plentiful. Turbot 3d. a pound. There are 1 50 

 boats belonging to the bay of Killalla, or Moy, 

 and to the town, from twenty to twenty-five, 

 five men to a boat, the boat has a fifth, the nets 

 two-fifths, and the crew two -fifths; the two- 

 fifths belonging to the crew, are fubdivided into 

 fixths, of which the fkipper has two. The her- 

 rings are caught near the bar, and in the river 

 Moy; the fifhery begins in October, and lafts 

 only two or three weeks. They judge of the 

 fhoal being there by the Gant, a bird that pur- 

 fues the fifh ; they fometimes get each boat 

 10.000 herrings, which is a full load, but this 

 is \ery rare, in general a good night's work is 



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