4.0 Land Tenure in Ancient Ireland. 



the agricultural amidst all the changes of Irish history. At the 

 present day, Ireland is specially a grazing country, and the 

 Irishman has a proverbial liking for cattle, and pigs, and horses, 

 and must be regarded as one of the least successful agriculturists 

 of the Old World, whilst we are told that it is the Scotch- 

 man or the Englishman, rather than the Irishman, who becomes 

 the great cultivator of the boundless grain-growing prairies of 

 the New World. 



