- Carlow

From the following statement, given by Mr Young, it appears that the bounty on land-carriage corn soon operated to the increase of tillage in Carlow. No great additional quantity of• corn was' brought from this county to Dublin till 1769, when the bounty had risen from about L. 150 to L. 849. In the years 1770 and 1771, it declined. In 1772, it rose to L. 1025 ; and in 1773 . to L. 2676. In 1774, to L. 2813. In 1777, the last year Mr Young quotes, it was L. 2479.

There is not, however, much wheat grown, and it is not of a bright colour, or a very good quality.

But the barley of Carlow is excellent ; according to Mr Young, the beat in Ireland. At the time of his tour, it was the only interior county which produc ed it ; and at present more is grown here than in any other part of the kingdom. It is principally Consumed by the illicit distilleries in the north of Ireland, being carried to Dublin by the canal ; by the breweries and distilleries at Cork ; or by the making-houses at Wexford. The potatoes grown in Carlow are excellent. There is little or no flax. The county is tolerably wooded. In the vicinity of Carlow, a great many onions are grown, which are sold all over Ireland.

Carlow is not distinguished as a manufacturing county. In Carlow, coarse cloth, reaping hooks,

scythes, shears, &c. are, however, made. At Leigh linbridge is one of the largest corn-mills in Ireland, capable of grinding more than 15,000 barrels a-year.

According to Dr Beaufort, in the year 1792, there were 8763 houses, and 44,000 inhabitants ; 15.6 Irish acres to a house ; and 40.94 inhabitants to an Irish square mile. The Catholics are reckoned to be ten to one Protestant. The Catholic farmers are becom ing wealthy, and have considerable property in leases and farming stock.

In 1792, there were 5503 houses of one hearth;

484 Of two ; 128 of three ; 69 of four ; 50 of five ; 31 of six ; 15 of seven ; 8 of eight ; 7 of nine ; S of ten ; none were returned above 44 : 268 were exempted as new, and 1822 as inhabited by paupers. The total, according to this return, was 8394.

Carlow county sends two members to Parliament, and the town one. The number of registered freehold ers of fifty pounds, to February 1815, was 359 ; of twenty pounds, 295 ; and of forty shillings, 3263 : in all, 8917.

See Young's Tour in Ireland.--Beaufort's Memoir of a Map of Ireland.—Wakefield's Statistical Account V Ireland. (c.)