38 Description of Dungarvon. 



the situation of Dungarvon elegible for fishing ; 

 a number of small craft are employed in the 

 transport of fish and potatoes to Dublin. The 

 harbour is said to be difficult of approach ; but 

 when vessels are in it, the bason appears safe 

 and commodious. 



The town is small, and the streets narrow. 

 It is likely I may not have a better opportunity 

 of giving you the result of my observations on 

 the general state of the tenantry of the country. 



The size of farms from fifteen to thirty acres 

 would give an average of about twenty-two or 

 twenty-three acres to each. Portions of these 

 are again sublet to cottiers, whose rents are 

 paid by labor done for the tenants ; from whom 

 they sometimes receive milk and some other 

 necessaries. These running accounts are an 

 endless source of dissatisfaction, of dispute, and 

 of contention at the quarter sessions. In some 

 of the most populous parts of Ireland, there is 

 supposed to be an inhabitant for every acre, 

 while the cultivation of the soil, as now prac- 

 tised, does not afford employment for a third of 

 that population. In the north, where the linen 

 trade has been established, the lower classes are 

 weavers, which gives them a great superiority 

 over the southern districts. The labor on the 



