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return as 19,732, or 710 in excess of the corresponding 

 number in 1900. Nearly four- fifths of the total, viz., 15,318, 

 were natives of the province of Connaught ; Mayo, with 10,074 

 migrants, as usual contributing a greater number to this total 

 than any other county. The numbers furnished by the other 

 counties of Connaught were : — Gal way, 2,005 ; Roscommon, 

 1,994 ; Sligo, 947 ; Leitrim, 298. The total number furnished 

 by Ulster last year was 3,010, of whom 2,386 were natives of 

 Donegal. The province of Leinster sent 751, while 653 came 

 from Munster. 



The proportion which the migratory labourers bore to the 

 total population of Ireland was 4*2 per thousand, the ratio, 

 in Mayo being 46-1 per thousand. The majority, viz., 14,534,. 

 shipped to England; 3,960 went to Scotland; while 1,238- 

 sought employment in other districts of Ireland. It is esti- 

 mated that the average earnings brought back to Ireland by 

 each migrant to Great Britain were £7 us., which would 

 represent in the aggregate a sum of £123,000 for the season> 



