High Rent of Land round Galway. 



may be to be let. This is a specious plea, and 

 is founded in fact, though the conclusion at- 

 tempted to be drawn from it is erroneous. It 

 is the pressure of the population, and the 

 anxiety of parties to obtain an establishment 

 at all events, that produce the competition, 

 which enhances the rent of land so much above 

 its intrinsic value to the occupier. 



The late and present times have much favored 

 the tenantry. Peace, which it is eagerly 

 hoped may restore repose to Europe, must 

 here fail of its benign effects. It will then be 

 discovered that the existing rents can by no 

 sacrifices of the people be paid. Reasonable 

 rents and a substantial tenantry are certainly 

 the most desirable objects of attention, when 

 the permanent prosperity of the proprietor 

 and the occupier of the land is fairly taken 

 into consideration. The land round the town 

 lets from seven to eight pounds the acre ! The 

 rotation of crops, after paring and burning, is 

 first potatoes, succeeded by barley; then oats ; 

 the next year the land is fallowed, after which 

 it is sown with wheat, and laid down with grass 

 seeds, among which clover is seldom mixed. 

 Many large farms are rented at three pounds 

 an acre for the arable ; and from six to seven 

 is given for the meadow lands. 



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