420 The Prize System as applied to Small Farmers in Ireland. 
Finally, 1 would refer to Thomas Hennessj, who holds three 
acres of land opposite the entrance to the residence of the late 
Father Wall. Of this little holding, which adjoins the public 
road, I was able to say, in the Report of 1874, that it formed 
quite a feature in the district. The land has been always clean 
and well cropped. The fences have been well kept. Year after 
year I found some progress effected. Last year (1876), among 
other improvements, a pair of gate-piers were erected, which on 
this little farm present a most imposing appearance, and which 
will long remain a monument to the spirit of emulation engen- 
dered by the Spencer prize system. 
In Table II. (pp. 422, 423) I give in detail the merit list. 
KlLLASOLAN, COUNTY GaLWAY. 
The Killasolan School is on the estate of Lord Clonbrock, who 
has subscribed to the Spencer Prize Fund. His agent, Charles 
Filgate, Esq., J. P., has also encouraged it, and has expressed to 
me the opinion that he wished the Local and other Agricultural 
Societies would expend in some such way the money now spent 
on dinners and in other useless ways ! I regret to say that I was 
unable to take part in the adjudication in this district last year ; 
but from what I saw in the preceding years, I am in a position 
to state that the system worked there most satisfactorily. 
LOTJGHGLYNN, COUNTY ROSCOMMON. 
The Loughglynn School is on the estate of Viscount Dillon. 
It has for years been connected with the National Board. An 
idea of the extent to which small farms prevail in this district 
may be gathered from the fact that on Lord Dillon's estate, of 
which the rental is about 24,000/. a year, there are 4500 tenants, 
which gives an average rental of less than 5/. 10s. per tenant. 
The circuit of five or six miles radius selected by Lord Spencer 
does not contain the whole of Lord Dillon's property, and 
embraces a large part of the estate of Lord De Freyne, and a 
small part of the estates of the O'Conor Don, M.P., and of Mr. 
Sandford, D.L. The names of several other proprietors appear 
in the tabular return appended to this Report. 
In 1872 the Judges had for distribution the sum of 11. 10s. con- 
tributed by Lord Spencer, which was given in three prizes, viz. : — 
Marks. 
First, 3?. 10s., to John Jordan, a tenant of Lord Dillon's, who) , 9 „ 
scored J 
Second, 21. 10s., to-Charles Lampey, a tenant of Lord De Frcyne's 355 
Third, 11. 10s., to Peter Crawley, a tenant of Lord Dillon's .. 350 
There were thirteen competitors ; and a few of those who did not 
