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LETTER XXX. 



Limerick, Sept. 8, 1813. 



AN the neighbourhood of Ennis there are 

 many great dairy-farms ; and though there did 

 not appear to be any impediment to the mak- 

 ing of good cheese, the produce from the cows 

 was almost exclusively employed in making 

 butter. No attention at present is paid to the 

 selection of stock, the greater proportion of the 

 milch cows being from the Kerry breed, which 

 are very neat small animals, much resembling the 

 Kylo, though the land on which they depasture 

 is admirable, and equal to sustain the largest 

 species of cattle. 



Sir Edward O'Brian's beautiful seat of Dro- 

 moland is about four miles from Ennis. The 

 house seems modern ; great additions have 

 lately been made to the pleasure grounds, 

 and the plantations are extensive over the 

 domain, which is happily broken into great 

 inequality of surface. Sir Edward farms on a 

 large scale j last year he grew one hundred 



