The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England, with Letters from Ireland : Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographic History, Volume 1J. Ainsworth, 1852 - Free trade |
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Page 472
... Mayo , Roscommon , Sligo , and other grass- growing counties being so generally devoted to pasturage , giving no employment to the people . With that question before us , it may be interesting to take a general review of Irish agricul ...
... Mayo , Roscommon , Sligo , and other grass- growing counties being so generally devoted to pasturage , giving no employment to the people . With that question before us , it may be interesting to take a general review of Irish agricul ...
Page 484
... Mayo , Roscommon , and Sligo , containing 2,220,960 acres arable ; 1,906,002 acres uncultivated ; 48,340 acres of planta- tions ; 3877 acres of towns ; and 212,864 acres of water . There were in 1846 planted with potatoes 206,292 acres ...
... Mayo , Roscommon , and Sligo , containing 2,220,960 acres arable ; 1,906,002 acres uncultivated ; 48,340 acres of planta- tions ; 3877 acres of towns ; and 212,864 acres of water . There were in 1846 planted with potatoes 206,292 acres ...
Page 520
... MAYO , March 10 . What muse , what inspiration shall I invoke in writing of Mayo ? I question if even fable has yet imagined a muse , or patron saint , or pen - and - ink spirit , able to gather into a writer's brain all the matter of ...
... MAYO , March 10 . What muse , what inspiration shall I invoke in writing of Mayo ? I question if even fable has yet imagined a muse , or patron saint , or pen - and - ink spirit , able to gather into a writer's brain all the matter of ...
Page 521
... Mayo . But there is a fall which is no legend that we must submit to ; a plunge which we must make from the mountains of Mayo , with all their grandeur of ocean , of islands , deep bays , high headlands , lakes , rivers , waterfalls ...
... Mayo . But there is a fall which is no legend that we must submit to ; a plunge which we must make from the mountains of Mayo , with all their grandeur of ocean , of islands , deep bays , high headlands , lakes , rivers , waterfalls ...
Page 522
... Mayo , ( and it must be confessed that rent is not easily gathered there , ) are ten or eleven Blakes , half as many Brownes , as many Bourkes , a few more O'Malleys than Bourkes , some Knoxes , Palmers , Lynches , Kirwans , and a few ...
... Mayo , ( and it must be confessed that rent is not easily gathered there , ) are ten or eleven Blakes , half as many Brownes , as many Bourkes , a few more O'Malleys than Bourkes , some Knoxes , Palmers , Lynches , Kirwans , and a few ...
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