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names, about ioo, are those of a few foreigners and those which 

 I have left as undetermined. This shows simply the relative 

 position of the names on the Roll. The number of Lowland 

 Scotch I find represented by the 565 names amounts to 5,682, 

 or about 55*80 per cent, of the entire Roll. Of Scotch of foreign 

 origin, there is a per centage ol 1*48. 



The Scottish Celts represented by the 234 names exhibit a 

 proportion of 23-68 per cent, of the Roll. The number of Irish 

 names (181) represents only 824 of a native population, or about 

 8*09 per cent. Here the results, from an examination of the Elec- 

 toral Roll, seem to vary from those obtained from other sources. 

 To represent the proportion of the native Irish in the county, we 

 should have to add 3 per cent., or even a little more, to this per 

 centage of 8*09. For I find that the native population, as a rule, 

 are much poorer than their neighbours, so that a far less proportion 

 of them have the qualifications of county voters, that is holdings 

 valued at ^12 per annum. By private enquiry in the districts 

 in which the native population is large, I find this to be the case, 

 and that many of their names do not figure on the Roll at all. 

 I think, however, that the per centage over the entire county is 

 not over 12 per cent. The English represented by the 251 names 

 amount to 783. Those of long settlement in the county — i.e., 

 who came centuries before the Plantation — number 40 in addition. 

 The Welsh names represent 28. All these taken together make 

 851, or show a per centage of 8*35 of the entire Roll. Foreigners, 

 Huguenots and Germans, are represented by 21 people on the 

 list. The undetermined names represent 243 on the list, or about 

 2*38 per cent, of the Roll. 



The native population is descended in the main from well known 

 Irish tribes, who dwelt in this part of the country before the wars 

 of Essex (Queen Elizabeth's time). The O'Neils of the clan of 

 Aodh Boy (Yellow Hugh, as he is improperly called), had then been 

 settled in the districts of North and South Clannaboy for over 200 

 years. The descendants are still very numerous in North Clanna- 

 boy. There are 44 O'Neils alone on the Electoral Roll of the 



