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Average rent of the county of Clare, 5s. 

 The bad tracts of land in the county, are the 

 eaft mountains, part of the barony of Burrin, 

 and the great peninfula, which forms the north 

 fhoreof the Shannon. Great 'tracts are let at 

 nothing at all, but there are 20,000 acres from 

 Paradiie hill, along the Fergus and Shannon to 

 Limerick, which flet at 20s. an acre. Thefe 

 lands are called the Corcajfes. The foil of them 

 is either a rich black loam, or a deep rich blue 

 clay ; and all the higher lands are lime-ftone, 

 or lime-ftone gravel. The mountains are ge- 

 nerally grit-ftone. The fize of farms is various, 

 Captain Tim. Macnamara farms 7000 acres, 

 but part in other counties. Mr. Singleton, 

 4000 acres. A farm of 300I. a year is a very 

 fmall one; 500I. a year middle; this is fpeak- 

 jng of ftock-farms. The tillage of the country 

 is carried on by little farmers, from 20I. to 

 iool. a year- but moft of it by the poor la- 

 bourers, who are generally under-tenants, not 

 holding of the landlords. The courfes of crops 

 are, 



1. Potatoes. 2. Bere. 3. Wheat. 4. Oats. 

 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Lay it out to grafs. 



1. Beans. 2. Bere. 3. Barley. 4. Wheat. 

 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Oats. 8. Lay it out, or 

 beans again. 



Of wheat they fow 10 to 15 flone an acre; 

 the crop, in the corcafs grounds, 8 barrels, in 

 the other lands 5 or 6 : 20 flone to the barrel. 



Potatoes 



