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fisliermen can earn from 4^d. to Is. 6d. per diem, and are 
mostly landliolders. The Burran Bank oysters are highly 
esteemed in Dublin^ and are called “ Burton Bindons/^ 
They are brought from Kilkerran and Kossmuck Bays^ 
in Galway^ and are laid down to fatten on the Bed Bank 
oyster-bed in Aughiiiish Bay. Formerly Mr. Burton 
Bindon was the possessor of these beds^ but now Mr. 
Singleton has succeeded him, as we are informed by Mr. 
Buckland, who has recently Yisited these and other 
oyster-beds on the west coast of Ireland^ the east coast 
of England^ and also those on the west coast of France. 
The Carrickfergus oysters are large in size, and, 
according to Mr. Patterson, so much in demand that 
their price in the Belfast market is generally from 125. 
to 155. per hundred of 120 oysters. 
There are oyster-beds in the Shannon, said in 1836 
to yield a revenue of £1400 ; and a small bed in Cork 
harbour, of no great extent, but the oysters are large, 
and prized for stewing, and sell at a good price. Formerly 
in Lough S willy there were oyster-beds, and the oysters 
were sold at 2d. per hundred, but they have become very 
scarce, from the beds not having been properly protected. 
In the ^Morning PosV August 29, 1864, an account 
is given of the investigations by the commissioners ap- 
pointed by Parliament, on the condition of the deep-sea 
fisheries of Ireland. At Wexford they elicited important 
facts. Fine oyster-beds are found at Wexford, but scarcely 
any oysters in them, which appears somewhat singular. 
It is not lawful to sell oysters in Ireland in the months 
of May, June, and July. The Wexford men dredge for 
them, of course, in the other months, but the reason of 
their beds being badly stocked is, that in the close months 
they are regularly dredged by Beaumaris boats ^ which 
