Nearly nine thousand people then dwelt here with never a landlord among them.

There was no "Coercion" in Gweedore, neither was there a coach nor a car to be found in the whole district.
The nominal owners of the small properties into which the district was divided knew little and cared less about them.

The rents were usually "made by the tenants,"-- a step in advance, it will be seen, of the system which the collective wisdom of Great Britain has for the last twenty years been trying to establish in Ireland.

But they were only paid when it was convenient.

An agent of one of these properties who travelled fourteen miles one day to collect some rents gave it up and drove back again, because the "day was too bad" for him to wander about in the mountains on the chance of finding the tenants at home and disposed to give him a trifle on account.