Statistical Survey of the County of Sligo: With Observations on the Means of Improvement; Drawn Up in the Year 1801, for the Consideration, and Under the Direction of the Dublin SocietyGraisberry and Campbell, 1802 - 122 strán (strany) |
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abbey Achonry acres agriculture annual value Ardnaglass Ardnaree Ballina Ballintogher Ballymote Ballysadare barley barony of Carbury barony of Corran barony of Liney barony of Tyrera barony of Tyrerril Bellaghy bogs borecole built bullocks called castle Castlebaldwin cattle clay Columb common Cooloony counties of Ireland county of Sligo cows crops demesne depth died the abbot ditches Drumcliffe Earl of Ulster Elkington's Elphin encreasing Enniscrone expence farmers farms feet Foxford friary furrow gravelly ground Hazlewood hollow drains horses houses husbandry improvement inches Ireland Irish lake leaclea Leicestershire Lough-allen Lough-gara Lough-gill M'Donogh manure Mayo miles monastery mountains nature navigable O'Hara oats oxen parish church pasture planting plough potatoes quantities quarter of land Richard Wynne river Moy ruins seats shillings side situated Sligo town soil and surface sometimes south of Sligo spade springs stones stratum straw Templehouse tenants tillage tithes Tobercurry town Tubberscanavan weight Wynne
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Strana v - State of education, fchools, and charitable inftitutions, — — of abfentee and refident proprietors^ — — of circulation of money or paper, of farming or agricultural focieties, ; of manufactures, whether increafing, of encouragement to them, and the peculiar aptnefs of the fituation...
Strana ii - Report of the gentleman, whose name is affixed, and they publish it for the comments and observations of all persons, which they entreat to be given freely, and without reserve. It is therefore requested, that the observations on reading this work may be returned to the Dublin Society, as soon as may be convenient, and which will meet with the fullest attention in a future edition.
Strana iv - Cefles paid by tenants, Proportion of working horfes or bullocks, to the fize of farms, General fize of fields, or enclofures, Nature of fences, Mode of hedge-rows, and keeping hedges, Mode of draining, Nature of manures. GENERAL SUBJECTS. Population, Number and fize of villages and towns, Habitation, fuel, food and cloathing of the lower rank...
Strana 42 - Independent of these causes, .there are certainly great springs contained in the bowels of the earth ; otherwise, how could the many rivers that intersect it, be supplied with such vast quantities of water as they discharge, the rains falling on its surface, or the dews that descend, not being adequate for that purpose...
Strana ii - This REPORT is at present printed and circulated for the purpose merely of procuring further information, respecting the state and husbandry of this district, and of enabling every one interested in the welfare of this country, to examine it fully, and contribute his mite to its improvement. The Society do not deem themselves pledged...
Strana 41 - ... descent, and here, forming a reservoir or considerable collection of water, it is forced either to filtrate along such body, or rise to some part of the surface, where it oozes out in all those different appearances that are so frequently met with. This is evident from the immediate disappearance of the rain water, as it falls, on some parts of the ground, while it remains stagnant on others, till carried off by evaporation; and from the strength of springs being greater in wet than in dry seasons....
Strana iii - Markets for grain, Ufe of green food in winter. PASTURE. Nature of it. Breed of cattle — how far improved, • how far capable of further improvement, Markets or Fairs for them...
Strana 41 - Hence, after incessant rains, they are observed to break out in higher situations, and, as the weather becomes drier, give over running out, unless at their lowest outlets. The strength of springs also, or quantity of water which they issue, depends chiefly on the extent of high ground that receives and retains the rain, forming large reservoirs, which affords them a more regular supply. Thus, bog-springs, or those that rise in valleys and low situations, are much stronger, and have a more regular...
Strana 51 - This balk they raise by a second bout, in the same manner ; then they go in the open furrow twice, with their common double-breast plough, getting what depth they can. After this, they shovel out all the loose mould and inequalities to the breadth of about a foot ; and thus having gained a clear, open furrow, the depth varying according to the soil and ploughs, but usually about eight or nine inches, they dig one...
Strana 41 - ... as are of an absorbent quality. Clay, and a certain kind of gravel having a proportion of clay in its composition, which, by binding and cementing the small stones together, renders it equally close and tenacious as clay itself; with such rock as is of a close and compact nature, without any fis-.