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The distribution of population, inhabited houses, and outbuildings 

 was as follows in 1891 : — 



Locality. 



Area. 



Population. 





Outbuild- 

 ing's and 



Persons. 



Males. ! Females. 



i 



Fann- 

 steadings. 



The Mullet, . 

 N. Inishkea, 

 S. Inishkea, 

 23 Islets, . 

 Portacloy, 



A. R. P. 



23,333 1 27 



464 1 32 



344 3 19 



350 17 



7845 1 1 



3757 

 126 

 180 



48 

 299 



1893 

 60 

 92 

 22 



148 



1864 600 



66 21 



88 32 



26 10 



151 54 



532 



4 



33 



27 

 29 



Totals, . . . j32,338 16 



4410 



2215 



2195 717 



625 



(b.) Acreage and Rental. — The total area of the district is that of 

 Kilmore, being 29,492 acres, and the three townlands forming the 

 Portacloy district, 7,845 acres. 



The total valuation of Kilmore is £4,055 ISs., and of Portacloy 

 £163 7s. 



There is very little commonage in the llullet, but about Portacloy 

 there is a good deal. 



The holdings are not large, averaging about 4-| or 5 acres at a 

 rental of about £3 10s. in the Mullet, and about £2 10s. in "the 

 mountains." There is considerable variation, however, as there are 

 some fanus of good size, but the majority are small. 



In 1891 there were, in Kilmore, 210 holdings of between £4 and 

 £10 valuation, 305 of £2 and under £4, and no less than 252 at, 

 or under, £2 valuation. 



The land is mostly held now at judicial rentals (the people having 

 early taken advantage of the Land Act of 1881), but sixty years ago 

 the greater part of the land was held in common, and the mode of 

 tenure is thus described by Knight : — " In the whole of the peninsula 

 there are few farms divided . . . the usual system being commonage 

 both in tillage and pasture. In tillage, lots are cast every third 

 year for the number of ridges each person is entitled to after the 

 usual rotation is over. Potatoes the first year, then barley or oats, 

 after which new lots must be cast for new potato ground. The 

 holdings are by sums or collops, which originally meant the number 



