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indgincnt, and perseverance. The district is called Glentin, and the estate
to which we more immediately refer, Cloghan.
It is about twenty years since Sir Cliarlcs Style inherited his estates. He
found the part that was situated in Donegal in a deplorable condition. Illicit
distillation was then at its Iieiglit, and Glentin was one continued distillery,
Overrun with all the demoralization and misery which accompanies the trade.
He at once determined to leave his native country, England, and to establisll
himself upon his Irish property. It contained about 16,000 acres,-of which
about 2,000 were arable, and the remaining 14,000 mountain waste. He .,
Ewe new leases to his tenants-made war upon the distillers, and in a short ‘
time completely eradicated them. He built the house, and formed a. domain I
011 a portion of the wildest bog; had a bridge built across the river Finn, ' '
and several roads made through the property; and after fourteen or fifteen
Years’ residence and active exertion, the state of his health compelled llim f0
leave Ireland; but instead of abandoning his tenants to their own resources
and misery, as the absentee proprietors too frequently do, he selected a sub-
stitute, to whom he gave unlz'niz'ted powers to act for Iiim, with ample means
for continuing his improvements. He divided the rents of the estate into
1W0 equal portions, leaving one half to bear the charges of iiianagcmelltr
cliarities, taxes, &c. This arrangement left to the agent, to be applied
to the improvement of the property, about f30O a year, after deducting all
the fixed charges. ‘
Calmlin John Pitt Kennedy settled, as his agent in Glcnfin, in the autumn
Of 1837. The leases given by Sir Charles Style Wm“ to 0-"l3l1'c i" November’
1838. During the continuance of these leases the tenants had divided ‘and 9 ,
subdivided the small portions of arable land into Rundalef‘ a state 11111135 i .
which paralyses all imp,-ovmmnt, It consists not in merely S11l)d1v1(lmg the
film into a given number of sm.ll detached fanns, but every quality of lmld
is subdivided, so that a holding of four or five acres was frequentlly :0 1::
. . - anc-
::1)1I7ld scattered into fifteen or twenty diti'erent lots, at considerable is ms
11 each other; and interlaced with the similar lots of other occup ,
pi-ccludiiig all possibility of enclosing the holdings. He found the tenant:
congmgatcd in Villages which, from the incessant and unavoidable trcslms 0
. . . on
g ultundale, which is a most mischievous way of occupying land, was, till of Lite years, the‘ (;(‘)1I‘l:]IT‘ ‘t i ,
pram“ Cf the North ‘of Irehmd It is thus '-Three or four persons become tenants to II farm, "7 ' ' .
loin"?! 0” Which there is land 01: different quailitics and values: the)’ divide it into fields, ‘ml [then :
each field into as ' without division or enee, 15..
many shares as there are tenants; which they OCCUPY . ,,-t; C,
-, k . . - ' s lis necessi .es .
An air ed in parcels by stones or other landmarks, which each occupies with such crops ad I few 5 in O“ l 1
mm“ 05 Pmcurinvv manure enable Hm so that there are at the same time; Several km S 0 P . l .
tield.”-e-' D‘ I: i .2 ll
“Part we Imli Sociely, 1330. i
Vol. III.