208 Neglect of Church-Yards in Ireland. 



for ascribing indifference to essentials in its 

 professors. 



The church-yards, as I before have observed, 

 are much neglected in many other parts of Ire- 

 land : ia England they are not always property 

 attended to, but here the neglect is very repre- 

 hensible. 



Great part of our road to Granard was hilly, 

 the soil light, and the cultivation but indifferent. 

 We met a number of people on their way to a 

 fair, which was to be held the following day at a 

 small village through which we had passed. Nu- 

 merous as were the parties, the value of the few 

 stock they had with them would scarcely amount 

 to the expense they must incur. The domesti- 

 cation of the pig in this country makes him 

 ready to attend the family on any excursion, 

 and on these occasions facilitates the labor of 

 driving. It appeared extraordinary to us, that 

 as a great number of those on their road to the 

 fafr must have passed through Granard, where 

 it was market-day, that they did not there dis- 

 pose of their pigs. Perhaps this would have 

 spoiled a frolic, the object of the greater part of 

 the attendants. 



We obtained a distant view of a considerable 



