510 



HE PORT— 1897. 



Tables VII. and VIII. 



Thirteen per cent, have fair hair, 42 per cent, brown hair, and 45 per 

 cent, dark hair ; the nigrescence index of Beddoe is 10 for the total of 31, 

 or 32"2 per cent. 



APPENDIX VI. 



Report of the Committee on the Ethnographical Survey of Ireland, consist- 

 ing of Dr. C. R. Browne, Professor D. J. Cunningham, Dr. S. 

 Haughton, Professor E. Perceval Wright, and Professor A. C. 

 Haddon {Secretary). 



Last summer (1896) Dr. Browne visited Clare Island and Inishturk, co. 

 Mayo. Until lately both these islands have been greatly cut off from the 

 outer world ; indeed, the latter is still without a postal service ; but Clare 

 Island has recently been bought by the Congested Districts Board, and so 

 great changes may be expected in the people. 



The population of Clare Island belongs largely to the Clan U'Maille 

 (O'Malley). Inishturk is populated by the O'Tooles. Some think this is 

 a branch of the Leinster sept of that name, but the people claim that they 

 are a branch of the O'Malleys. 



Dr. Browne measured 56 adult males, and noted the eye and hair 

 colours of 206 individuals. The people are fairly good-looking, brown- 

 haired and blue-eyed, and of rather slender build. The average height is 

 1,696 mm. (5 ft. 6| in.), somewhat below the average Irish stature ; the 

 cephalic index is 79'4. The face is very broad ; the nose is often short 

 and upturned, and is broad across the nostrils, giving a high nasal index 

 (69' 1 for Inishturk). The physical proportions differ a good deal from 

 those of other districts in co. Mayo. The people of Inishturk are taller 

 (1,716 mm.), stouter, darker, and of lower cephalic index (77*9) than those 

 of Clare Island (1,693 mm. and 79'7 respectively). 



The mode of life is somewhat similar to that in Inishbofin.' The 

 greater part of the islands is held in commonage, and all land when not 

 actually in crops is common land. Very little land is cultivated, and all 

 of it by spade labour. A good deal of kelp is burnt. 



In his paper, which was read before the Royal Irish Academy in June, 



' Proc. Roy. Triih Acad., 3rd series, vol. iii. 1894, p. 317. 



