Inclosurei, Agriculture, and Cabins. 7 1 



the false informatiou. I record it, not as matter 

 that gave us umbrage, but as the reverse of 

 conduct we had every where else received. 



In the course of our drive to the Royal Oak, 

 which is ten miles from Kilkenny, we passed 

 numbers of people on their road to mass, and 

 were much pleased to observe that the demean- 

 our and dress of these parties were greatly su- 

 perior to those we had seen in the morning. 

 The iuclosures are large ; and, from the ap- 

 pearance of the buildings, I should be led to 

 infer the size of the farms was in proportion 

 to that of die fields. Fallowing seems to be car- 

 ried to a considerable extent on the soil which 

 is clay. The pernicious custom of cropping 

 incessantly with grain, and of forcing with lime, 

 was, however, apparent. We noticed a field of 

 Egyptian wheat : it had been sown too late, and 

 was still greeu. To give this wheat a fair chance 

 of success, it should be raised on a sharp gravelly 

 soil, and in a warm and sheltered situation. 

 Potatoes were almost all set in lazy beds ; we 

 scarcely saw an instance of their being drilled ; 

 a pretty strong proof that little attention is paid 

 to the agriculture of the district The cabins 

 appeared to be less comfortless, which always 

 afforded us pleasure. Place man in that state 

 in which, as a rational creature, he ought to be, 



