3 SS M O N I V A. 



Farms around Moniva confift, principally, 

 of large (lock ones, from 200 to 500 acres, 

 with very few cabbins upon them j the tillage 

 of the country is principally carried on by vil- 

 lagers, who take farms in partnerfhip. Mr. 

 French's are generally from 20 to 130 acres. 

 There will fometimes be from ten to thirty 

 families on a farm of 200 acres ; but Mr. 

 French finds that they do not thrive well if 

 there are more than fix families to one farm. 

 The foil to the weft of Moniva, is a lime-ftone 

 gravel, mixed with a clay, fome of it upon clay: 

 to the eaft it is a deeper and richer clay, and 

 lime-ftone all the way to the Shannon. The 

 whole county lime-ftone, except the mountain- 

 ous tracts on the weft, beyond Loch Carril, 

 and the mountains to the fouth of Loch Rea. 

 Rents in this neighbourhood rife generally from 

 i2s.to 16s. except old leafes, which are 6s. or 

 7s. The richeft part of the county is between 

 Lochrea and Portumne, thence to Eyre-court, 

 Clonfert, and Aghrim. The third of the 

 county is bog, lake, and unimproved moun- 

 tain ; but moil of the latter yields fome trifling 

 rent, the whole third, perhaps three-pence an 

 acre j the other two-thirds, 12s. at an average. 

 The ifles of Arran contain 7000 acres, belong 

 to John Digby, Efq; and let at about 2000I. a 

 year. The great tract of mountain is the three 

 Baronies of Eyre Connaught, Pvofs, Ballyna- 

 hinch and Moycullen ; they are forty miles 

 long, and fifteen broad, and are in general un- 

 cultivated. The principal proprietors are, 

 Robert Martin, Efq; Thomas French, ofMoy- 



* culien, 



