Ireland in 1834: A Journey Throughout Ireland, During the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1834, Volume 1Whittaker, 1835 |
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acres advantage appearance assizes Athlone Banagher banks Bantry beautiful Bianconi bridge cabins Cahir Cahir-siveen called Cappoquin Cashel Castle Connell Catholic Clare classes Clonmel comfortable condition considerable Cork Cove Dingle domain Dublin Earl of Kenmare employment England English Ennis export extensive farm farmers favourable Fermoy hills houses hundred improvement interesting Ireland Irish islands journey Kenmare Kerry Kilkenny Killaloe Killarney labour lake lakes of Killarney land landlord leases Limerick Lismore Loch Lord magnificent Mallow MICHIGAN middle-men miles Mitchelstown mountain navigation neighbourhood observation passed pauperism peasantry persons picturesque poor population Portumna potatos present pretty prosperity Protestant quarters reach rent resident retail trade river road ruins scarcely scenery seen Shannon shillings side situated streets Suir Tarbert tenantry tenants thing Thomastown Thurles tion Tipperary tithe tower town Tralee traveller Valentia Island village visited walk Waterford Wexford wooded Youghall
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Page 346 - From time to time, considerable emigration has taken place from this part of Ireland to America ; and it is not unusual for remittances to be sent home from the colonies, by those who have emigrated, for the use of their poor relatives. Now it is a curious fact, and a fact that consists with my knowledge, that Catholic emigrants send their remittances to the care, not of the Catholic priest, but of the Protestant clergyman, to be distributed by him among those pointed out. The same respect for, and...
Page 283 - All the witnesses, examined for the prosecution, were, by their own account, mere lookers on at the battle; nor stick, nor stone had they. Their party had no mind to fight that day; but, in making this assertion, they always take care to let it be known, that, if they had had a mind to fight, they could have handled their shillelahs to some purpose. On the other hand, all the witnesses for the prisoner aver just the same of themselves; so that it is more by what winesses wont [sic] tell, than by...
Page 334 - In a few minutes, on both sides of the road as far as the eye could see, was vast expanse of sand and water, water and sand.
Page 98 - ... per annum ; but which, having been resisted by some spirited and prying person, who questioned the right of toll, the receipts have been since considerably diminished. It was with some difficulty that I obtained a sight of the table of tolls ; but I insisted on my right to see it ; and satisfied myself that potatoes and butter-milk, the food of the poor, pay a toll to Lord Clifden, who, out of the revenue of about £20,000 per annum which he draws from this neighbourhood, lays out not one farthing...
Page 165 - ... its greenness and fertility ; and diversified by noble single trees, and fine groups. The banks bounding this valley, are in some places thickly covered, in other places, lightly shaded with wood. Then, there is the bridge itself, and the castle — grey and massive, with its ruined and ivy-grown towers ; and the beautiful tapering spire of the church ; and the deep wooded lateral dells, that carry to the Blackwater its tributary streams. Nothing, I say, can surpass, in richness and beauty, the...
Page 347 - ... that these facts were perfectly known to the volunteering priest. I do look upon it as most important to the civilization and to the peace of Ireland, that a better order of Catholic priesthood should be raised. Taken, as they at present are, from the very inferior classes, they go to Maynooth, and are reared in monkish ignorance and bigotry; and they go to their cures, with a narrow education, grafted on the original prejudices and habits of thinking, which belong to the class among which their...
Page 31 - ... per day left, for the support of a wife and four children, with potatoes at fourpence a stone. I entered one other cabin: it was the most comfortless of the three; it was neither air nor water tight, and had no bedstead, and no furniture, excepting a stool and a pot; and there were not even the embers of a fire. In this miserable abode there was a decently dressed woman with five children; and her husband was also a labourer, at sixpence per day. This family had had a pig; but it had been taken...
Page 28 - I remained here three days, walking up the glens and among the mountains; mixing with, walking with, and talking with the people; and allowing the interest which I felt in a fine and romantic country, to be lost in the higher interest, which attaches to the social condition of the people. The contemplation was a less pleasant one: - for notwithstanding that I was in the next county to Dublin; that Wicklow is a county...
Page 33 - But what employment? employment which affords one stone of dry potatoes per day for a woman and her four children. A labourer in this county considers himself fortunate in having daily employment at sixpence throughout the year; and many are not so fortunate. I found some who received only fivepence; but there are many who cannot obtain constant employment, and these have occasional labour at tenpence or one shilling; but this, only for a few weeks at a time. I found the small farmers living very...
Page 91 - ... have mentioned was received : the principal of these factories used to support two hundred men with their families : it was at eleven o'clock, a fair working hour, that I visited these mills, and how many men did I find at work? ONE MAN ! And how many of the eleven wheels did I find going? — ONE ; and that one, not for the purpose of driving machinery, but to prevent it from rotting. In place of finding men occupied ; I saw them in scores, like spectres, walking about, and lying about the mill....