Chief proprietors.

Value of land.

labour.

nience with respect to manure, lime being remote, and the roads leading into the parish bad and uneven. They raise great stocks of cattle throughout the parish; the mountains are contiguous thereto, to which they send them to graze in the summer time; they are on the low lands but a short time in the winter.

The chief proprietor is Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, Bart. a mild, indulgent and protecting landlord, who is incessantly labouring to promote the welfare of his tenantry. He is also contributing to the interests of the public at large, by opening a new line of road from Macroom to Kenmare, by means of which it is presumed that the carriage of lime will be accomplished with greater ease and facility. The other chief proprietors' names are mentioned in the table of the townlands in the Appendix.

As for conjecturing the value of an acre on an average, it is quite absurd; suffice it to say, that some are good, more extremely bad; some acres may perhaps set at two pounds sterling; others are Prices of scarcely worth any thing. The prices of labour here are unprecedented, owing to the decline of trade. Labourers are idle for the want of employment, and their families starving; and in fact, when labourers were well paid, they were obliged to go into the inland country, to earn their wages or hire. There being little demand for them here, they are now in a starving condition.

X. Trade, Manufactures, &c.

The points referred to in this section have been already answered in the negative.

XI. Natural Curiosities, Remarkable Occurrences, &c.

bents.

The following list presents the succession of in- Incumcumbents, as they are to be found in the First Fruits' Records:

Bryan Roch, admiss. 4 Oct, 1637, Vicar. de Ballyvorney, dioc. Clonen. 10s,

Johes. Earle, collat. 6 April, 1641, ad Vicar. de Ballyvorny, 40s.

Richard. Brown, admiss. fuit 29 Oct. 1669, ad Vicar. de Maclonrigh, Vicarias de Macromp & Ballyvourney, 40s. ster, dioc. Corke & Clonen, in com. Corke.

Thomas Ryder, clicus. in artib. magr. admissus fait 22 April, 1713, ad R. & V. de Ballyvourny, dioc. Clonen. & com. Corke, vac. p. mortem natural. revdi. Richard. Brown, cliei ult. ibm. incumbent.

Wm. Spratt, Rec. & Vic. of Ballyvourny, 17 June, 1747.

Nich. Foster, R. Ballyvourney, V. same, 9 June,

1749.

Daniel Sandford, Chancellor. Church of St. Coleman, Cloyne, R. Clenere, V. same, V. Rogericalor, R. Aghacross, R. Ballyvourney, R. Nohane, oth. Templemolagy, 2 Jan. 1767.

Edward Synge Townsend, collated 28 June, 1784, R. V. Ballyvourney, Cork, n. t.

Edward Delaney, A. B. coll. 7. Jan. 1789, R. V. Ballyvourny, Cork.

Edward Synge Townsend, collated and instituted 29 Jan. 1793, R. V. Clondrohid, R. V. Ballyvourney,

n. t.

John Ryder, collated 30 July, 1801, R. Killinemer, R. V. Ballyvourny.

Incumbents.

Joseph Donnett, col. 9 June, 1803, R. Ballyvourney, V. same, Cork, n. t.

Wm. Butler, coll. 24 Sept. 1807, vice Robt. Kirchoffer, who held the same for two years and a half, and vacated by cession, R. Ballyvourney, £1, V. same, £2, Cork.-Robert Kirchoffer is not returned for Ballyvourney.

Bazil Orpen, coll. 15 July, 1808, vice Wm. Butler, R. Ballyvourney, n. 1. V. same, £2, n. 1.

XII. Suggestions for Improvement, and Means for meliorating the Condition of the People.

This section deserves the greatest attention, as affecting the community at large. Any attempt to better the condition of the people should be strenuously encouraged by those possessed of the means, and would be received by a people oppressed and almost heart-broken by heavy rents and taxes, with that enthusiastic gratitude which characterizes the Irish nation. The landlords should come forward and minutely consider the means of their tenants, and set their land according to the times, and not expect the high rents they were accustomed to receive, when land in general is so low in price; for it is evident to any unprejudiced mind, that a tenant now, possessed of the same property that he had hitherto, when commodities were in great demand, cannot make the same rent of his farm; hence, it is absurd and oppressive to demand any more for it than its real value. Had the landlords come forward with such condescension and humanity, to mitigate the rigours of their poor tenants and diminish the sources of their misery, and also to make themselves acquainted with the means they possess of making up the rents, the

sinking spirits of their tenantry would be revived, and their industry and perseverance increased. And, seemingly, this mode of acting would be conducive to the interest of the proprietors, for tenants, driven to despair by unmerciful and oppressive landlords, commit great ravages on their farms, and let their houses go to ruin, often withholding possession until it is recovered from them by the strong arm of the law; thereby revenging their own wrongs on their masters, and causing them much expense in recovering their land by legal proceedings, in the mean time spoiling and injuring their farms, so that, when it is re-let, it is not worth the one-half of its former value, and the houses, for want of repairs, are not fit even for pig-sties. Is it not, then, more prudent to keep

up the spirit of industry among the community, and not to over-rent the farms; and will not the landlords have more advantage by so acting, than in oppressing their tenants, and at last receiving land totally unfit for a cultivator? This evil would be in a great measure, if not entirely, remedied, if absentee landlords would return to their estates and reside upon them, by which means they would be eye-witnesses to the distresses they have occasioned, and must be entirely destitute of humanity if they would not endeavour to alleviate them.

Houses.

Families.

Ditto.

scraith or scraich, a sod, and gann, poor.

bard, a guard, and sigh or shee, a fairy.

and bothar or bobar, a road.

Tooher or Toher, a causeway.

Dirreenaling,

Handsome little wood, from dairin, the diminutive