A tour in Ireland; with general observations on the present state of that kingdom made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779 / By Arthur Young.

  • Arthur Young
Date:
1780
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Credit: A tour in Ireland; with general observations on the present state of that kingdom made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779 / By Arthur Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obliged to him. Farms rife from 20 to lool. a year, in general 60 or 80]. but few larger. The foil heavy, loam eight or nine inches deep upon from 12 to 18 inches of yellow till^ under which, lime- ftone gravel 10 feet deep on rock, alfo dry found gravel, lets from 15 to 20S. Average rent of the county of Weftmeath, exclufive of wafte, 9 s. including it 7s. The courfes of crops mofl common: 1. 2. 3- 4- 5- Potatoes I. Potatoes Bere 2. Flax Oats 3. Oats Oats 4. Oats Oats 5. Oats_ and oats longer if the land will bear it, even till they do not get three barrels an acre, and then leave it to cover itfelf. Among the better farmers ; 1. Fallow manured with lime-ftone gravel 2. Wheat or bere. 3. Oats 4. Oats. They fow one barrel of wheat, and get feven per acre; fow one and a half of bere, and get 15 or 16; of oats one and a half, the crop 10 or 11 at firft, and decreafes every year till nothing but weeds. The cottars all fow flax on bits of land, and drefs and fpin it, and it is woven in the country for their own ufe, befides felling fome yarn. The little farmers keep no fheep. The chief improvements of waftes are the bottoms adjoining to the bogs, vs hich they drain and cover with gravel or earth, that produce good potatoes. No other way of laying land to grafs, than fowing red clover, or oftener nothing, and leaving it. Meadows