have been so ruthlessly dealt with. Now the reductions of the holdings in Ireland between 1841
difficulty arises, when that is done, 'What is to be done with the tenants?' * * * "About a mile from the town there were about twelve persons to be disposed of. I saw the impossibility of satisfying them, and I proposed that they should cast lots for the land. They agreed to cast lots, upon condition that each man going out was to get £20, his lordship paying half, and the tenant who got the land paying the other. That was settled, and they got their money, and a good many went to America. * * * The whole of the expense of those tenants for those two years was £551. 13s 3d.' "
John Duke, Esq., M.D.
D. H. Kelly, Esq., Land Proprietor, Magistrate, and D.L.
"To what size have you thought it desirable to bring the farms? — If I could I should not like to have any thing under twenty acres; but I am content with ten, and put up with six."—Dig. Dev. Com, p. 471.
Captain K. Lloyd, Land Proprietor, Agent, and Magistrate.